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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Physical Education Teachers' Career Intentions
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Mäkelä, Kasper; Hirvensalo, Mirja; Whipp, Peter R. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
Purpose: This study investigated Finnish physical education (PE) teachers' intentions to leave the profession and the reasons behind them. Method: A large sample (N = 808) of PE teachers who graduated between 1980 and 2008 (432 women, 376 men) answered a modified job satisfaction and teacher follow-up questionnaire that elicited career…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Career Development, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction
Quality of Worklife and Higher Education Support Personnel: Testing the Generalizability of a Proposed Model
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Inoshita, Lynn T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Higher Education Support Personnel support the faculty in fulfilling the mission of America's colleges and universities. Rarely studied, these personnel include position classifications such as support/service professionals, technical/paraprofessionals, clerical and secretarial, service/maintenance, and skilled crafts. The support/service…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Administrators, Work Environment
A Validity Study of the Salter Environmental Type Assessment.
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Salter, Daniel W. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2002
Correlational analyses of data from 202 students on the Work Environment Scale and Salter Environmental Type Assessment (SETA) supported concurrent validity. Factor analysis identified three factors accounting for 70% of variance: positive work settings, structure, and work pressure/task orientation. SETA appears useful as a commensurate Myers…
Descriptors: Career Development, Concurrent Validity, Factor Analysis, Personality Measures