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The Teacher Attrition Phenomenon: The Role Of Teacher Collaboration And Motivation, Brenda Anne Pearson
The Teacher Attrition Phenomenon: The Role Of Teacher Collaboration And Motivation, Brenda Anne Pearson
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High quality data that clearly illustrates the dynamic and socially embedded nature of teachers’ roles is critical to the development and implementation of educational policy addressing teacher attrition issues. Study participants are comprised of 161 full-time teachers serving in three elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the southwestern United States. The purpose of the current study is to explore the extent to which the formation of teacher collaboration networks interacts with individual perceptions of motivation. Additionally, collaboration networks are examined across time, specifically at two time points across an academic semester.
This study embeds teachers’ individual behaviors …