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Bruno, Paul; Rabovsky, Sarah J.; Strunk, Katharine O. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Novice teachers' professional contexts may have important implications for their effectiveness, development, and retention. However, due to data limitations, descriptions of these contexts are often unidimensional or vague. Using 10 years of administrative data from the Los Angeles Unified School District, we describe patterns of new teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Distribution, Teacher Placement, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Environment
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Cobbold, Cosmas – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The problem of getting sufficient numbers of qualified teachers to staff classrooms is one of the most significant public policy issues facing many countries. In Ghana, the problem of teacher shortage has been a perennial one, necessitated by educational expansion as well as adverse socio-economic and political circumstances, and exacerbated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage, Change Strategies, Predictor Variables
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Egalite, Anna J.; Bowen, Daniel H.; Trivitt, Julie R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Math and reading teachers who also coach athletics in the public school system are challenged to balance the responsibilities that come with fulfilling dual occupational roles. While many studies have examined teacher-coaches' stress levels and job perception in the context of role strain, there is no evidence of how student achievement in tested…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Reading Teachers, Athletic Coaches, Teacher Responsibility
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Nasser-Abu Alhija, Fadia; Fresko, Barbara – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The present paper focuses on new teachers' satisfaction with their first year of teaching from the perspective of socialization. The relationship between satisfaction with socialization and teacher background, school environment, placement, and induction variables was examined. Data were collected from 243 Israeli beginning teachers by means of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Mentors, Predictor Variables
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Howie, Sarah J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
South African pupils performed well below the TIMSS international average in 1995 and 1999 and significantly below all other countries (including the other African countries) in the 1999 study. Path analysis, namely Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis, was applied to the South African TIMSS-R data to explore the effect of contextual factors at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Size, Mathematics Achievement, Context Effect
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Zarghami, Fatemeh; Schnellert, Gary – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
While there are hundreds of studies reported for general education, few researchers have focused on the impact of class size on the academic achievement of students with special needs. Despite escalating special education costs and increasing student needs, policies governing special education remain inconsistent. We examine the effect of class…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Class Size, Teacher Persistence, Academic Achievement