- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- An investigation into the differences with satisfaction of beginning teachers' developmental support efforts as perceived by intending and not intending to return teachers, 2002
- Creator:
- Grier, Curtis L.
- Date of Original:
- 2002-12-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This research investigates the perception of satisfaction that the developmental support efforts�support from the human resources department, the teachers' orientation support, local school mentor support, local school administrative support, instructional team support, and undergraduate academic preparation-have on the retention of beginning teachers in a metropolitan school system. The perception of satisfaction, with the developmental support efforts, was surveyed by a questionnaire of the beginning teachers in the selected metropolitan school system. In a Pearson r correlation coefficient, there was a significant correlation with perception of overall level of support for beginning teachers and local school administrators, local school instructional teams, and the human resources support efforts. A one-way analysis of variance revealed that there was a significant difference in the perception of satisfaction from beginning teachers who desired to return or leave the metropolitan school system, and the support provided from the local school administrators, the schools' instructional teams, the local school mentor, the beginning teachers' orientation program, or support provided from the department of human resources. In a stepwise multiple regression analysis of data, local school administrators, local school instructional teams, and the human resources support efforts were the only significant predictors of beginning teachers' perception of overall level of support. The conclusion is that the support efforts of the local school administrators, the local nstructional teams, and the efforts of the human resources department played a pivotal role in impacting the level of satisfaction of the beginning teachers with the support services provided through the metropolitan school system, and there positively impacted the intention of beginning teachers to return to the school district.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2002_grier_curtis_l.pdf
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
