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Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration

Student Achievement

2020

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The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Teacher Retention And Student Achievement, David Earl Murphy Jan 2020

The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Teacher Retention And Student Achievement, David Earl Murphy

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This non-experimental quantitative study aimed to determine if servant leadership influenced teacher retention or student achievement and if teacher retention influenced student achievement. This study’s respondents were 145 middle and high school teachers within a contiguous rural region of the Southeastern United States. Survey responses were received and analyzed during the late summer of 2020. Three research questions guided this study: Does servant leadership [high, low] influence teacher retention intention; What is the effect of servant leadership [high, low] on student achievement by categorical population groups as identified by the GaDOE; and lastly, What is the effect of teacher retention …