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The Influence Of Student Discipline On Teacher Job Satisfaction When Controlling For Workplace Characteristics, Personal Attributes, Human Capital Elements, And Principal Leadership, Joshua Pittman Dec 2020

The Influence Of Student Discipline On Teacher Job Satisfaction When Controlling For Workplace Characteristics, Personal Attributes, Human Capital Elements, And Principal Leadership, Joshua Pittman

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to contribute to the empirical literature related to the influence of student discipline on teacher job satisfaction. Further, this research aimed to explore the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction while controlling for the contributing factors of job satisfaction (i.e., workplace characteristics, personal attributes, human capital elements, and principal leadership). In addition, the results of this research study were interpreted through the lens of the Affective Events Theory indicating a person’s emotions and behaviors for the workplace may influence their job satisfaction. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to see whether there …


A Phenomenographic Study Of Teachers’ Perceptions Of A School Leader’S Role In Teacher Retention In A Failing Title I Elementary School, Alex Davis Dec 2020

A Phenomenographic Study Of Teachers’ Perceptions Of A School Leader’S Role In Teacher Retention In A Failing Title I Elementary School, Alex Davis

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

This study examines teachers’ perceptions of their administrator’s role in retaining teachers in one failing Title I Elementary School. As attrition rates among teachers increase in the United States, more investigation is needed to fully understand what role, if any, school administrators play in teachers’ retention efforts. Through the use of phenomenography, this study explores various factors connected to school administrators that can contribute to teacher retention. Interviews and a focus group were used to gather data in this study to provide insight into teachers’ perceptions of their administrator's role in contributing to their decisions to leave or remain in …


Evaluative Feedback Of Performance As Experienced By First-Year Teachers, Christine Carson Oct 2020

Evaluative Feedback Of Performance As Experienced By First-Year Teachers, Christine Carson

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

Evaluative performance feedback is critical to improving educational practice. First-year teachers are learning to develop lesson plans, make their own decisions on how to handle classroom management, promote positive behavior of students, and increase student achievement. Evaluative performance feedback is critical to improve how first-year teachers navigate the early years to make positive and lasting changes in their practices. The problem this investigation sought to explore was to identify how new teachers use evaluative performance feedback to reflect and develop ideas for change and growth in practice. This phenomenography was an inquiry into understanding how first-year teachers experience evaluative performance …


A Comparison Of Public And Private School Teachers' Job Satisfaction When Controlling For Policy Perspectives, Individual, And Workplace Characteristics, Christopher Small Mar 2020

A Comparison Of Public And Private School Teachers' Job Satisfaction When Controlling For Policy Perspectives, Individual, And Workplace Characteristics, Christopher Small

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the empirical literature concerning the factors that contribute to the job satisfaction levels of public and private school teachers. Furthermore, an emphasis is placed on how policy, procedures, and workplace characteristics affect levels of job satisfaction. This study focused on other contributing factors of job satisfaction such as personal attributes, human capital, occupational characteristics, and school characteristics. Inferential statistics concluded that there was a statistically significant difference between the job satisfaction levels of public and private school teachers.