New lenses to understand beginning teacher workforce concerns: Developing and justifying scale items for measuring beginning teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions

Title
New lenses to understand beginning teacher workforce concerns: Developing and justifying scale items for measuring beginning teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions
Publication Date
2019
Author(s)
du Plessis, Anna Elizabeth
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4597-7232
Email: adupless@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:adupless
Wang, Jin
Hoang, Ngoc T H
Adele, Schmidt
Mertens, Leah
Cullinan, Madonna
Cameron, Vicki
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1016/j.ijer.2019.08.017
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/56969
Abstract

This paper reports on a collaborative project between educational industry and research partners, in Queensland, Australia with the aim of developing instruments to gather new information about beginning teacher workforce issues. The investigation stimulates deeper insight into beginning teachers’ (n = 504) and school leaders’ (n = 306) perceptions of specific factors influencing beginning teacher attrition and retention and beginning teacher workforce stability. The convergent mixed-method study includes demographic data and information derived from Likert scales and open questions and is underpinned by context-conscious understanding development theory. The initial scale validation and justification involves confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis. The findings offer a new lens to develop an in-depth, multi-layered understanding of beginning teacher workforce issues to inform future research and policy decisions.

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Citation
International Journal of Educational Research, v.98, p. 206-223
ISSN
1873-538X
0883-0355
Start page
206
End page
223

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