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Factors Affecting Mobility Rates Of Principals And Teachers In Canadian Seventh-Day Adventist Schools : 1970-78, Leroy Raymond Kuhn

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Problem. Statistics Canada (1977) reported that the national mobility rate of the teaching force in Canadian public elementary and secondary schools in 1975-76 was 11 percent, compared with 15 percent in 1970-71. During the 1970-78 period, Seventh-day Adventist church schools (elementary/secondary day schools) in Canada reported a 38 percent teacher/principal mobility rate. It was the purpose of this study to identify factors that cause high mobility of teachers and principals in SDA church schools of Canada by investigating the relationship of opinions between the school board members and the school faculty members of these schools on the topics of: principal …