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A longitudinal study on starting teachers’ retention intentions: Do pre-teaching work experience and length of working years make a difference?
Goodwin, A. Lin Low, Ee Ling Cai, Li Yeung, Alexander Seeshing
Goodwin, A. Lin
Low, Ee Ling
Cai, Li
Yeung, Alexander Seeshing
Abstract
This 4-wave longitudinal study examined how starting teachers' retention intentions changed over three years. One-way repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) found a significant main effect of time on retention intention. Two-way ANOVA also showed a significant main effect of pre-teaching work experience, and years of work experience on retention intention. However, there was no significant interaction effect between time and pre-teaching work experience, and between time and years of prior work experience. These findings suggest that prior work experience in other professions and length of working years did not make a difference in starting teachers’ retention intentions over time.
Keywords
starting teachers, first-career teachers, second-career teachers, career changers, teacher retention intention, longitudinal study
Date
2019
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Journal article
Journal
Teaching and Teacher Education
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83
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Page Range
148-155
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