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Scott, LaRon A.; Bell, Nicholas; Dayton, Meagan; Bowman, Rachel W.; Evans, Imani; Grillo, Monica; Spence, Christine; Layden, Selena J. – Exceptional Children, 2023
Special education teachers of color are underrepresented in research about attrition and retention, despite evidence of their role in the academic, social, and emotional success of students of color. We used critical quantitative methods and structural equation modeling to investigate the attrition and retention variability between special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Decision Making
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Kaplan, Haya – SAGE Open, 2021
Reports on drop-out rates and difficulties experienced by beginning teachers require an examination of the motivational processes that characterize teachers at this stage. Support systems for beginning teachers in the induction period in Israel include a workshop and a mentoring process. This study examined how support in beginning teachers'…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Workshops
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Imran, Rabia; Allil, Kamaal; Mahmoud, Ali Bassam – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the path of motivation leading to organizational commitment resulting in reduced turnover intentions (TIs). It examines the relationship between dimensions of motivation (amotivation, introjected regulations (IRs) and intrinsic motivation (IM)) with dimensions of commitment (affective, normative and…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Intention, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Motivation
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Samadi, Linda; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh; Sadighi, Firooz; Yarmohammadi, Lotfollah – Cogent Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, to investigate if there are significant relationships between burnout, intention to leave, and job satisfaction among EFL instructors. Secondly, to examine whether job satisfaction mediates the potential relationship between intention to leave and burnout. To this end, 120 EFL instructors selected…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Measures (Individuals), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Da'as, Rima'a; Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test an innovative model for exploring the direct and indirect relationships between principals' cognitive complexity (CC), schools' absorptive capacity (ACAP), a teacher's affective commitment and a teacher's intent to leave. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from a survey of 1,664 teachers…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Models, Teacher Persistence
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Conley, Sharon; You, Sukkyung – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
A previous study examined role stress in relation to work outcomes; in this study, we added job structuring antecedents to a model of role stress and examined the moderating effects of locus of control. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the plausibility of our conceptual model, which specified hypothesized linkages among teachers'…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Locus of Control, Stress Variables, Teacher Attitudes
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Cha, Sung-Hyun; Cohen-Vogel, Lora – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
To better understand the factors related to teachers' decisions to leave for jobs outside of education, the study employs a structural equation modeling approach to analyze data from two large national datasets from the National Center for Education Statistics. The focus on occupation switchers is unique, with most studies of teacher attrition…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
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Sass, Daniel A.; Seal, Andrea K.; Martin, Nancy K. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: Teacher attrition is a significant international concern facing administrators. Although a considerable amount of literature exists related to the causes of job dissatisfaction and teachers leaving the profession, relatively few theoretical models test the complex interrelationships between these variables. The goal of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers