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Peer reviewedStevens, Ken – Education in Rural Australia, 1992
Twenty-four young teachers from urban backgrounds, teaching in two rural Queensland secondary schools, were surveyed about their relationships with students, the community, and administrators; teaching conditions; their satisfaction with teaching, in general and in a rural community; and their career plans. Contains 35 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Rural Schools, Secondary Education
Miller, B. Jeanette – 1991
Indiana vocational home economics teachers were sent 58-item questionnaires designed to determine reasons for their dissatisfaction with their jobs. These teachers had been identified in an earlier study as being dissatisfied with their jobs. Respondents numbered 367 (80 percent); 56 added notes explaining their feelings. Computer forms were…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Home Economics Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Occupational Home Economics
Direct linkO'Hara, Leonard F. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1996
Describes the importance of obtaining faculty support to ensure success in college reform efforts, and reviews strategies for improving institutional climate. Discusses a survey instrument designed to measure faculty perceptions of college atmosphere and developed as part of the Fourth Paradigm Governance Model. Includes a sample faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship, Organizational Climate
Download full textSultana, Qaisar – 1996
This study of 98 special education teachers investigated the reasons for the high attrition of special education teachers in Kentucky. The participants were asked to give three reasons (in no more than one phrase) why in their opinion special education teachers leave special education and choose to teach general education. The most common reason…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Principals
Stevens, K. J.; Crowther, H. I. G. – 1986
Young urban teachers assigned to rural schools in Queensland, Australia, experience difficulties in adjustment related to isolation from family, friends, and other professionals. Twelve teachers in a small remote settlement and 12 teachers in a rural school close to a suburban area completed a questionnaire exploring their relationships with their…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Billingsley, Bonnie S.; And Others – 1995
A 3-year research and development project examined ways to improve the retention of special education teachers in the Memphis (Tennessee) City Schools. Several individual studies identified sources of dissatisfaction with teaching and the conditions that would encourage career longevity among teachers. Responses from 470 special education and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility
