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Makinen, Jarkko; Olkinuora, Erkki; Lonka, Kirsti – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The purpose of the study was twofold. Firstly, we aimed at distinguishing groups of students with differing general orientations to university studies. Secondly, our goal was to establish a connection between orientations and students' intentions to discontinue their studies as well as their actual absences. The participants of the study were all…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen
Knowles, Martin E.; Delaney, Peter F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The authors present 3 experiments demonstrating ways to reduce illegal moves in problem-solving tasks. They propose a 3-stage framework for the rejection of illegal moves. An illegal move must come to mind and be selected, checked for legality, and correctly rejected. Illegal move reduction can occur at any stage. Control group participants…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Error Patterns, Experimental Psychology, Task Analysis
Sachs, Stephanie Kay – Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
Urban schools are challenged to improve teacher retention and quality. Unfortunately, research on effective teaching and attributes of effective teachers rarely has considered urban contextual influences. The purposes of the current study were (a) to develop and validate an instrument for evaluating urban teacher attributes and (b) to determine…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence
Montecel, Maria Robledo; Cortez, Josie D.; Cortez, Albert – Education and Urban Society, 2004
The factors that contribute to student dropouts have been the focus of extensive deliberation during the last decade. Despite expanded attention, the number of dropouts remains unacceptably high. Drawing on the authors' 17-year history of dropout research in Texas, Arizona, and across the country, this article describes the alarming dropout rates,…
Descriptors: Dropout Research, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention
Hampton, Frederick M.; Purcell, Terri L. – ERS Spectrum, 2005
This paper examines the relationship between the poor academic performance of urban students and the transience of teachers, principals, and the students themselves. Many studies, the authors observe, have noted the detrimental effect of one group's transience on student performance, but none has examined the particular devastation wrought by the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Student Mobility, Faculty Mobility
Costelloe, Sarah C. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2006
In recent decades, federal, state, and local policies have demonstrated renewed efforts to address the concerns of both teacher quality and quantity, resulting in initiatives to attract, reward, and retain qualified people in the teacher profession. Initiatives to address the problems of teacher quality and quantity often take the form of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Beginning Teachers, Cohort Analysis
Sumsion, Jennifer – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2003
What enables some early childhood educators to sustain their commitment to a career in children's services despite multiple adverse conditions that lead to high rates of attrition from the field? The case study documented in this article seeks to address this question by identifying influences contributing to the resilience of an Australian early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Personality Traits, Early Childhood Education
Lucas, Tamara; Robinson, Jennifer – High School Journal, 2002
This article describes a cohort of freshmen planning to become teachers at Montclair State University (MSU) in New Jersey. The goals of the cohort are to identify freshmen, especially students of color, with an interest in becoming teachers, to provide them with a supportive community as they make the transition from high school to college, and to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, College Freshmen, Teaching (Occupation), School Holding Power
Wheaton-Shorr, Pamela – Instructor, 2006
In recent years, the average educator's salary--never lavish--has grown at a far slower rate than those of other professions, often even lagging behind inflation. As everyone knows all too well, when salaries are low, it is not just the teachers who lose out. According to Texas education official, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, turnover is highest where…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Salaries, Labor Turnover
Quint, Colleen J. – Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2004
Maine faces a unique challenge. State residents earn high school diplomas at one of the highest rates in the nation. Yet the percentage of Maine adults who hold college degrees is below the national average. Consider the following statistics: 87% of Maine high school freshmen graduate from high school in four years, 67% of those graduates intend…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, Scholarships, Academic Achievement
Magdaleno, Kenneth R. – Leadership, 2006
With the increasing number of Latina and Latino students in California schools, the need was clear for a mentoring program that not only increased the growth rate, but also supported the retention rate of Latina and Latino school superintendents and educational leaders. Such leaders are most often perceived by Latina and Latino students as…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Mentors, Hispanic American Students, Persistence
Gansemer-Topf, Ann M.; Schuh, John H. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2004
A long-standing concern of many colleges and universities are low persistence and graduation rates. This study examined how institutions can affect, and potentially improve, persistence and graduation rates by targeting their expenditures toward those activities that have an affect on persistence and graduation. Framed by Tinto's theory of…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Graduation Rate, Graduation, Expenditures
Berry, Barnett – Center for Teaching Quality, 2007
Smart school communities ask and answer hard questions about which teachers they attract and how they are developed and supported, as well as whether they reward and retain the teachers they most need to help all students achieve. Designed to provoke and inspire, the framework described in this paper offers a blueprint for how school communities…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Development
Marvel, John; Lyter, Deanna M.; Peltola, Pia; Strizek, Gregory A.; Morton, Beth A.; Rowland, Renee – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The objective of the Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) is to provide information about teacher mobility and attrition among elementary and secondary school teachers who teach in grades K-12 in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. In pursuit of this objective, TFS examines the characteristics of those who stay in the teaching profession and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence
Useem, Elizabeth; Offenberg, Robert; Farley, Elizabeth – Research for Action, 2007
This study of teacher staffing issues in the School District of Philadelphia, the third in a series, outlines the degree to which the district has succeeded in upgrading teachers' professional credentials, recruiting and retaining them, and equitably distributing experienced and credentialed teachers across all types of schools. Since the passage…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Credentials, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Effectiveness

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