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Key Influences on Special Education Teachers' Intentions to Leave: The Effects of Administrative Support and Teacher Team Efficacy in a Mediational Model
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Conley, Sharon; You, Sukkyung – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
The subject of special education teachers' intentions to leave has been a longstanding concern of researchers and practitioners. This paper reports on a study that examined the workplace predictors of teachers' intentions to leave for a nationally representative USA sample of 2,060 secondary school special education teachers (with students aged…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Intention, Teacher Persistence, Predictor Variables
Correlates of Job and Professional Satisfaction among Secondary School Administrators
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Conley, Sharon; Shaw, Shirley; Glasman, Naftaly – Journal of School Leadership, 2007
This study examined the job and growth satisfaction of secondary school administrators. Three sets of variables (job, organizational, and personal characteristics) were tested in terms of their impact on 2 related but distinct dependent variables: job and growth satisfaction. The participants included 153 school administrators, 66 principals, and…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Principals, Secondary Schools, Administrator Attitudes
Reforming the School Workplace: Making Sense of Multiple Frameworks.
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Scull, W. Reed; Conley, Sharon – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1995
Explores the school as a workplace, incorporating structural, human relations, symbolic, and political organizational frameworks. Future examinations of the school as workplace may use multiple analytical approaches, and a multiple-framework approach may provide ways to describe perspectives of students of organization and practitioners about the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Evaluation Methods, Human Relations
Standards-Based Evaluation and Teacher Career Satisfaction: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
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Conley, Sharon; Muncey, Donna E.; You, Sukkyung – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 2005
Structural equation modeling was used to assess the plausibility of a conceptual model specifying hypothesized linkages among perceptions of characteristics of standards-based evaluation, work environment mediators, and career satisfaction and other outcomes. Four comprehensive high schools located in two neighboring counties in southern…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Work Environment