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Troy, Kimberly Doris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Burnout is a psychological phenomenon that is common among professions that have a high demand for empathy, such as those in the mental health field. School counselors are more at risk of feeling burnout than other professions because of numerous demands from the job, role conflict and ambiguity, large caseloads, and the amount of time spent on…
Descriptors: Burnout, Empathy, School Counselors, Risk
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Young, I. Phillip; Cox, Edward P.; Buckman, David G. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2014
To assess satisfactory job performance of superintendents on the basis of school districts' high-stakes testing outcomes, existing teacher models were reviewed and critiqued as potential options for retrofit. For these models, specific problems were identified relative to the choice of referent groups. An alternate referent group (statewide…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Evaluation, Models, Job Performance
Burdette, Paula – Project Forum, 2011
The purpose of this document is to describe states' work in the area of performance-based compensation with a focus on special educators, including how teacher evaluation informs compensation decisions, support given to local education agencies (LEAs), variables used to make compensation decisions and how performance-based compensation is funded.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Compensation (Remuneration)
Holmes, William Tobias – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study implemented a Sequential Transformative Mixed Methods design with teachers (as recipients) and principals (to give voice) in the examination of principal talk in two different school accountability contexts (Continuously Improving and Continuously Zigzag) using the conceptual framework of Motivating Language Theory. In phase one,…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Mixed Methods Research, Teachers
Maxie-Brown, Gwendolyn J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between the job satisfaction of speech language pathologists (SLPs) and self-efficacy, work relationships and two components of job performance: teacher judgments of student improvement and supervisor ratings of teacher efficiency. It was hypothesized that each of the variables would be…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Job Performance
ACT, Inc., 2007
Postsecondary and work success is central to the economic and social wellbeing of a country. Fundamentally, college success is measured by persistence to degree attainment. Analogously, work success refers to effective performance of a job's required tasks. To succeed in college, one must be ready for college. A student who is ready for college is…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Career Development