The purpose of this paper is to understand the mediating roles of communication and organisational citizenship behaviour in the relationship between transformational leadership and teacher retention. Based on 537 valid responses, this study identified that transformational leadership directly affects teacher retention, while communication and…

Engagement in professional associations offers significant growth, networking, and development opportunities. Despite these benefits, participation in such associations is decreasing, with financial constraints, irrelevant member benefits, and generational disconnect as primary factors. At the 2024 AAFCS conference, a session titled "W.H.Y.…

Growth mindset and academic grit are crucial for adolescents' academic achievement. However, previous research that explored their relationship through variable-centered approaches cannot adequately address the group heterogeneity. This study addressed the issue by conducting latent profile analysis and social network analysis with a sample of…

First generation students face persistent barriers in achieving postsecondary success. Emerging research has suggested possible benefits of deeper learning pedagogy for the promotion of social-motivational and academic skills among underrepresented students. We examined the effects of first-generation students' experiences with deeper learning…

Supervisor, co-worker, and customer-initiated incivility in the services industry dominate the literature. Incivility studies in academic institutions are beginning to emerge and students' initiated incivility has taken the center stage, whereas studies on lecturer-initiated incivility are lacking. This study, therefore, seeks to find out the…

This paper examines the choice of the teaching profession in contemporary Japan based on the theory of anticipatory socialization. The study relies on Bourdieu's habitus theory to examine the choice of the teaching profession from a social background perspective, because the rational career choice model, which focuses on working conditions and…

Recognizing the "diversity crisis" in regards to the cultural dissonance between educators and their diverse students, "Diversifying the Educator Pipeline" provides a critical examination of the mistakes we have made in our efforts to bolster the presence of Black educators. Grounded with the historical context of Black…

Promoting continuous learning behavior is a key challenge for online learning. The present paper empirically examines the effects of course network characteristics including course network size, course network diversity, and course strong ties on continuance behavior, considering the moderating impacts of social learning and social exposure.…

The sudden onset of the Pandemic due to COVID-19 required universities to quickly transfer face-to-face courses to the online learning environment. Many students found this new learning environment stressful and struggled to successfully complete course work. To identify factors that may have allowed students to succeed, a research study was…

This quantitative study examined grit and hope scores with a population of first-year Science, Technology and Engineering (STEM) students. The researcher strived to understand if higher grit and hope scores correlate with higher grade point averages (GPA) and persistence in STEM among first-year STEM students enrolled in a mid-sized, suburban,…

Due to the continuous decrease in teacher retention rates in the state of Texas, it is important to understand principals' use of influence tactics and its effects on teacher retention. The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental, cross-sectional, descriptive design (Creswell & Creswell, 2018; O'Dwyer & Bernauer, 2013) study was to…

Using narrative inquiry to collect data through interviews and an arts-based approach to present the findings through a narrative film screenplay format, this multimethod qualitative study aimed to expose the reality faced by undocumented students, especially those involved with activism, through tales of resilience and grit. The theories that…

Purpose: This study examines how and whether expectancy for success and task values influence students' persistence in work placement learning tasks (persistence). Also, it examines the mediating role of task values in the expectancy for success and students' persistence nexus. Design/methodology/approach: This is a two-study finding. In Study 1,…

The recruitment and retention of minoritized students is critical for diversifying the counseling profession. Accreditation standards and scholarship provide little guidance on best practices. We sampled 38 administrators from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs to understand recruitment and retention…

Successful homework completion necessitates engagement in self-regulated learning activities. The key challenge lies in fostering self-confidence among students to enable them to complete homework independently. Applying the importance-performance theory, the study uses a unique statistical tool to assess homework completion for practical…