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Weathers, John M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of principal leadership and accountability policies on teachers' sense of community. This study is situated within the research and policy/practice discourse over the importance of schools developing a professional community of teachers who share common values, cooperate in support of these…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Personnel, Leadership, Collegiality
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Price, Heather E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Purpose: Research finds that the attitudes of principals and teachers create an atmosphere for learning, often referred to as school climate, that influences school effectiveness. Other research shows that atmospheres of trust, shared vision, and openness create positive school climate conditions. Little is known, however, about how these climates…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, School Effectiveness, Social Psychology
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Riehl, Carolyn; Sipple, John W. – American Educational Research Journal, 1996
Relationships among teachers' task environments, school organizational climates, and teachers' professional and organizational commitments were examined using data from the Schools and Staffing Survey for 14,844 secondary school teachers. Results suggest that commitment is associated with school climate. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Organizational Climate, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers
Ingersoll, Richard M. – 1999
This analysis examines the effects of school and organizational characteristics on teacher turnover and, in turn, school staffing problems. The analyses are based on data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and its supplement, the Teacher Followup Survey, a large, comprehensive, nationally representative survey of teachers and schools conducted…
Descriptors: Career Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Labor Turnover
Karge, Belinda Dunnick – 1993
This study examined the relationship between environmental factors of teaching climate for beginning teachers and the desire to remain in teaching. Data from 23,088 Public School Teacher Questionnaires from the Schools and Staffing Survey longitudinal database were analyzed to determine the effect of environmental demographic factors…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Teachers, Demography, Educational Environment