Teacher Retention: A Case Study

The survey instrument created for this study includes relational questions to discover whether one or more working conditions predicts teacher retention and whether the absence of one or more working conditions predicts the likelihood a teacher will leave teaching or migrate to a new building. The survey contains both Likert-type scaled response ratings and demographic questions designed to identify teacher characteristics such as grade level. There are four constructs in this study: academics, school climate, shared leadership, and induction programs. Because these four constructs have not been directly measured, they are referred to as unobserved variables (Urdan, 2010). Each construct contains several working conditions, which are the independent variables in this study. The survey contains several questions, or observed variables, because they have been measured by the survey questions and have thus been observed (Urdan, 2010 add him to my citations).
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These data will be used to make predictions about the likelihood of teacher retention or to predict whether teachers are likely to leave teaching or migrate to a new school. Descriptive statistics will be used to uncover the presence of each working condition in each of the four types of schools under study.
Inferential statistics will be applied to relate each working condition to teacher retention in each of the four types of school. The potential for bias exists because the survey results only include responses from teachers who chose to complete the survey. Nardi (2006) explained that respondents may be different from participants and therefore might distort the outcome. Creswell (2012) added insight, explaining that people who choose to complete surveys may be “overly negative or positive” (p.