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Öztürk-Akar, Ebru – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This study investigates the Alternative Certification Program (ACP) students' motivations to become teachers. Fit-Choice Scale is used. Sample of the study consists of 248 participants in three groups i.e. Health, Sports and Mathematics. Descriptive and inferential statistics, and content analysis are used to examine ACP students' reasons to want…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Student Motivation, Career Choice, Age Differences
Alsulami, Naif Daifullah Z. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this research is to describe the characteristics of the re-entry experiences of Saudis returning to Saudi Arabia after studying abroad. The total number of participants in the study was 21, consisting of 13 male and 8 female participants returning from studying in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. By conducting semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Study Abroad, Reentry Students
Washburn, Micki; Crutchfield, Jandel; Roper, De'An O.; Smith, Dawnetta; Padilla, Yesenia – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
As a result of the health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, in Spring 2020 social work programs nationwide were required to make significant shifts in their instructional methods and field placements. These changes often resulted in faculty members taking on new or additional responsibilities related to teaching and field.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Faculty Workload, Masters Programs, Social Work
Lieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron; Love, Ivy; Robertson, Cassandra; Tesfai, Lul – New America, 2021
From February to April, New America conducted over 30 interviews with experts, care providers, and union representatives, focusing on three states. This report outlines key considerations for improving care worker job quality through organizing. We also include case studies on care worker organizing in California, Illinois, Washington, and the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care Occupations, Home Health Aides, Caregiver Attitudes
Redekopp, Dave E.; Huston, Michael – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
Work is a significant factor in mental health and wellbeing outcomes. Career development processes can be helpful in finding and managing work trajectories that lead to these as well as additional wellbeing outcomes. Conversely, mental illness can impede the acquisition and retention of suitable work as well as the ability to fully engage in…
Descriptors: Career Development, Work Environment, Well Being, Mental Disorders
Tasçi, Samet – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of the present study is to find out initial career motives and demotivation of English language teachers working in Turkish context. 30 teachers working at high state schools participated in the current study. Initial career motives and demotivation questionnaires adopted from Kim & Kim (2015) were applied to the participants.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Polyanskaya, Ekaterina; Nikitina, Vlada; Abbasova, Aida – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
The article strives to analyze, systematize and consolidate the findings of empirical research into career orientations of Russian youth through the prism of E. Schein's anchor conception and on the basis of the various versions of his questionnaire. It was revealed that career orientations in adolescence are characterized by low differentiation,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Family Work Relationship
Wetzstein, Lia; Meza, Elizabeth Apple; Bragg, Debra D. – Community College Research Initiatives, 2020
This data note presents results from qualitative interviews with Community College Baccalaureate (CCB) students in Washington state. We use in-depth, longitudinal interview data to describe three CCB students' experiences prior to CCB-program enrollment and through their programs to graduation and employment. The three students we profile credit…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Bachelors Degrees, Student Experience
Schwab, Keri; Hendricks, William W.; Dustin, Daniel L.; Murphy, James F. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to assess faculty perceptions of tenure in parks, recreation, and tourism. To answer our research questions, we designed a 26-item survey and posted it on The Academy of Leisure Sciences listserv (ALSnet). We received 149 usable responses to the survey and grouped the results into the categories of: earning tenure,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Parks, Recreation
Strunk, Katharine O.; Goldhaber, Dan; Knight, David S.; Brown, Nate – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2018
Few studies examine employee responses to layoff-induced unemployment risk; none that we know of quantify the impact of job insecurity on individual employee productivity. Using data from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Washington State during the Great Recession, we provide the first evidence about the impact of the layoff…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Teacher Dismissal, Unemployment
Strunk, Katharine O.; Goldhaber, Dan; Knight, David S.; Brown, Nate – Grantee Submission, 2018
Few studies examine employee responses to layoff-induced unemployment risk; none that we know of quantify the impact of job "insecurity" on individual employee productivity. Using data from the Los Angeles Unified School District and Washington State during the Great Recession, we provide the first evidence about the impact of the layoff…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Teacher Dismissal, Unemployment
O'Neill, Jerry; Fitzsimons, Camilla – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2020
This article presents and discusses the findings of a small-scale research project into the occupational outcomes of graduates of an Initial Teacher (Further) Education (ITE) programme at Maynooth University in Ireland. The findings from this mixed-method research indicate that many graduates experience high levels of occupational precarity and a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Adult Educators, Career Development
Worth, Jack; Faulkner-Ellis, Henry – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on society, the economy and on the entire education sector. Teachers' workload, well-being, recruitment and retention have been affected by the national crisis. The aim of the National Foundation for Educational Research's (NFER's) annual series of Teacher Labour Market reports is to monitor the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Labor Market
Feldhues, Katherine; Tanner, Timothy – Journal of Extension, 2017
Extension administrators contemplating the challenge of employee turnover should consider potential motivation factors. Through the lens of Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory, we explored the relationship between financial uncertainty and employee turnover in Ohio State University Extension. The Human Resources department and Business Office of…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Teacher Persistence, College Programs, Motivation Techniques
Shahzaad, Meiko – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative correlational analysis explored the relationship between the perceptions of information technology professionals' and perceived job security, perceived morale, perceived productivity, and perceived turnover of information technology professionals. The available body of knowledge on the topic of offshoring was limited from the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Professional Personnel, Attitudes, Outsourcing