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Teacher Professionalisation and Career Commitment

Overall, the findings of the present study suggest that teachers have low to moderate levels of professionalisation, high level of career identity and moderate levels of career resilience, and career planning. From the T-tests and F-tests conducted, it was found that gender has a significant impact on career identity whereas age and marital status have significant impact on career planning and ...

Teacher Education and Career Outcomes

This paper analyzes how public school teachers make educational decisions and the effects that these decisions have on their future labor market outcomes. In particular, it looks at the impact of college options and characteristics on the recent increase in the incidence of master’s degrees for employed teachers. Teachers’ education and career decisions are modeled via a dynamic framework in th...

Career Concerns Incentives and Teacher Effort

I present a generalization to the standard career concerns model and apply it to the public teacher labor market. In particular, this model provides three testable hypotheses: optimal teacher effort levels decline with experience all things equal, optimal effort declines with tenure at a particular school, and teachers shirk as incentives collapse at the end of a teacher’s career or tenure. Usi...

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Teacher attitudes about classroom conditions

Purpose – This research was designed to investigate the possible relationship between the attitudes, teachers have about the condition of their classrooms when the classrooms were independently assessed. Previous research reported teachers in unsatisfactory classrooms felt frustrated and neglected to such an extent that they sometimes reported they were willing to leave the teaching profession....