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The Relationship Between Satisfaction, Motivation, And Caseload And Teacher Retention, Corbett Hawks Mar 2016

The Relationship Between Satisfaction, Motivation, And Caseload And Teacher Retention, Corbett Hawks

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Teacher retention has long been a major issue in the educational sector. In today’s schools, effective teachers are a necessity for meeting the fluctuating needs of society. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational, predictive study was to examine the relationship between satisfaction, motivation, and caseload in relation to teacher retention for elementary special education teachers in southwest Virginia. This study incorporates the Three C’s of Education theory (Sher, 1983) and the influence of characteristics, conditions, and compensation. Non-experimental research with a correlational design was implemented along with the criterion variable (retention) and the predictor variables (satisfaction, motivation, and caseload). Participants …