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Why Agricultural Educators Remain in the Classroom
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Crutchfield, Nina; Ritz, Rudy; Burris, Scott – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe factors that are related to agricultural educator career retention and to explore the relationships between work engagement, work-life balance, occupational commitment, and personal and career factors as related to the decision to remain in the teaching profession. The target population for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Teacher Persistence, Family Work Relationship, Careers
The Effects of Leadership and High-Stakes Testing on the Retention of Teachers
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Thibodeaux, Amy Krohn – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine whether principal leadership behaviors and the demands of high-stakes tests had an impact on teachers' intent to remain in the teaching profession. Perceptions of teachers concerning the contributing factors that led to their intent to remain in the teaching profession were also examined. Factors included…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
Career Longevity among Southeastern Band Directors: Environmental, Personal, and Educational Factors
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Hearn, Sidney Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purposes of this study were to determine whether variables reported in previous research on teacher turnover could be reduced to a number of factors, and to determine how those resulting factors affected career longevity in band directors. Career longevity was defined as the total number of years teaching. Literature on teacher turnover was…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Persistence, Multiple Regression Analysis, Factor Analysis
Final Report on the Mississippi Project CLEAR Voice Teacher Working Conditions Survey
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Berry, Barnett; Fuller, Ed – Center for Teaching Quality, 2008
In 2007, the state of Mississippi conducted a web-based survey of all school-based licensed educators in which they were asked to share their perceptions of the state of teacher working conditions in Mississippi. This report of the Mississippi Teacher Working Conditions Survey, Project CLEAR Voice (Cultivate Learning Environments to Accelerate…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Urban Differences
2011 State Teacher Policy Yearbook. Mississippi
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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The 2011 State Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
The Relationship between Secondary Teachers' Perceived Levels of Burnout and Their Perceptions of Their Principals' Supervisory Behaviors.
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Richardson, Gloria D.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1988
This study investigated differences in teachers' perceptions of their burnout levels and their perceptions of their principals' supervisory behaviors. Demographic variables of gender, race, and subject area were considered. A random sample of 192 Mississippi teachers of English, math, science, and social studies was drawn from secondary schools…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Principals, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers