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Mentor Effectiveness And Its Correlation With Physician Assistant Faculty Job Satisfaction And Turnover Intentions, Amy Bronson
Mentor Effectiveness And Its Correlation With Physician Assistant Faculty Job Satisfaction And Turnover Intentions, Amy Bronson
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Growth in physician assistant training programs is resulting in an increasing demand for qualified physician assistant faculty. Gaining an understanding of mentoring in PA education and its relationship to faculty job satisfaction and faculty turnover intentions is important. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the effectiveness of mentoring in relation to faculty perceived levels of job satisfaction and faculty turnover intentions for Physician Assistant (PA) Educators in the United States. A correlative cross-sectional web-based survey design, created from a combination of The Mentor Effectiveness Questionnaire, Job in General Scale, and the Turnover Intentions Measure, were …
Keeping Good Teachers Teaching: A Study Of The Retirement Of Baby Boom Teachers, Dean Erickson
Keeping Good Teachers Teaching: A Study Of The Retirement Of Baby Boom Teachers, Dean Erickson
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Baby boom teachers, born between 1946-1964, are in the midst of making retirement decisions. Some choose to remain teaching as long as they physically and mentally can handle the demands of the job, while others look for the first opportunity to exit. The large number of teachers in this cohort and the fact that 50% of teachers are also leaving in their first 5 years of teaching is causing the teacher “pipeline” to leak at both ends. This dissertation looks at baby boom teacher retirement and factors that cause some to retire early while others continue teaching and what can …