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Induction Programs Effect on Beginning Teachers’ Feelings of Preparedness and Plans to Remain in Teaching

Induction Programs Effect on Beginning Teachers’ Feelings of Preparedness and Plans to Remain in Teaching. A paper presented to the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness ( SREE) In Washington, DC Jennifer Flanagan Second year M.S. graduate student in Education Psychology

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Induction Programs Effect on Beginning Teachers’ Feelings of Preparedness and Plans to Remain in Teaching

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  1. Induction Programs Effect on Beginning Teachers’ Feelings of Preparedness and Plans to Remain in Teaching A paper presented to the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) In Washington, DC Jennifer Flanagan Second year M.S. graduate student in Education Psychology jflanag2@gmu.edu William J. Fowler, Jr., EdD.Research AssociateProfessor of Education wfowler@gmu.edu George Mason UniversityGraduate Schoolof Education

  2. Objectives Possible relationships between induction programs and beginning teachers’ • Feelings of preparedness • Plans to continue teaching Replicate of the previous work of Smith and Ingersoll (2004) (that used the 1999-2000 SASS) with the 2007-2008 SASS • Our hypothesis: • More elaborate induction programs will be associated with a higher percentage of teachers that plan to remain in teaching as well as greater feelings of preparedness. George Mason University

  3. Theoretical Framework Beginning Teacher Induction Programs • Put in place in public schools across the nation because of the challenges new teachers face in the classroom and to mitigate beginning teacher attrition. • Aim to offer support, guidance, and orientation for the newcomers, but are significantly varied across school systems (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). • The more comprehensive induction programs have previously showed the lowest turnover percentage, but were not commonly offered (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). George Mason University

  4. Theoretical Framework Approximately 50% of teachers leave the profession within the first five years of teaching (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). Voluntary more then involuntary (Guarino, Stanibañez, and Daley, 2006) The teacher reported reasons for leaving the profession or seeking out new positions within the field include • insufficient administrative support • lack of student motivation • unsatisfactory salary and benefits (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004). George Mason University

  5. Theoretical Framework A shift in emphasis on the importance of retaining quality teachers, rather than focusing on recruiting (Guarino et al., 2006, Kersaint, Lewis, Potter, and Meisels, 2007) . George Mason University

  6. Theoretical Framework Glazerman’s et al. (2008) randomized control study of a comprehensive teacher induction program had no effect on teacher retention after one year or even after a second year. They also believed teacher preparedness was a mediating factor for teacher retention, however, they found that comprehensive teacher induction made teachers feel neither more satisfied with or better prepared for their jobs as teachers. George Mason University

  7. Theoretical Framework Using the NCES Schools and Staffing 2007-2008 restricted individual teacher dataset: We seek to confirm Smith and Ingersoll’s findings from the 2000 SASS, and to inform these conflicting findings from the Glazerman’s et al. study and Isenberg’s et al. randomized control studies. We attempt to capture the intensity of induction supports, although we leave to the more ambitious randomized control studies the question of whether the inferences we draw are causal. George Mason University

  8. Research Questions Are beginning teachers feeling more prepared to teach having participated in an induction program during their first year of teaching? Does a more elaborate induction program lead to higher feelings of preparedness in beginning teachers? Are plans to continue teaching and participation in an induction program related for beginning teachers? What support is being offered to beginning teachers in their first year of teaching? Which supports are highly correlated with plans to remain in teaching? George Mason University

  9. Methods Population • Restricted data from the 47,440 nationally and state representative sample (weighted n = 305,306) beginning public school teachers (SASS, 2007). • Beginning Teachers- 3 years or less of teaching experience Analysis • SPSS, AM, and STATA statistical software programs • EDA, t-tests, chi-squared tests of association, factor analysis, OLS and multinomial logistic regressions George Mason University

  10. Methods Created variables: • Feelings of preparedness • Factor Analysis • Handle a range of classroom management or discipline situations • Use a variety of instructional methods • Assess students • Select and adapt curriculum and instructional materials • Plans to remain in teaching • Recoded to a scale of 1-7 • “As long as I am able” was coded as a seven • “Definitely plan to leave as soon as I can” was coded as a one George Mason University

  11. Means and Standard Deviations and Factor Loadings for Items of Preparedness Scale George Mason University

  12. Methods Induction Program Supports • Common planning time with other teachers • Extra classroom assistance (i.e. teacher aides) • Classes or seminars for beginning teachers • Ongoing guidance from a master or mentor teacher • Support from principal and administration • Reduced teaching schedule or number of preparations (SASS, 2007) George Mason University

  13. OutcomesBeginning Teachers’ Feelings of Preparedness Note. * = p < .05. George Mason University

  14. OutcomesBeginning Teachers’ Plans to Remain in Teaching George Mason University

  15. Outcomes Those teachers who reported participating in an induction program were more likely than those who did not participate to state that they would remain in teaching “as long as they were able”(t(88) = -13.317, p < .000*). There was no significant difference between those teachers who wanted to “leave teaching as soon as possible”, whether they reported having participated in an induction program or not(t(88) = -0.421, p = .675) (SASS, 2007). George Mason University

  16. Outcomes 75% of beginning teachers reported having participated in an induction program during their first year of teaching George Mason University

  17. Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Beginning Teachers' Plans to Remain in Teaching George Mason University

  18. Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Beginning Teachers' Plans to Remain in Teaching George Mason University

  19. Outcomes Elaboration of Induction Programs Model 1 (Teacher and School Characteristics) • Age (rrr = .917, p =.005)* • Minority status (rrr = 1.016, p = .006)*. Model 2 (Mentor) • 56% reduced risk of leaving • (rrr= .442, p = .025)*. Model 3 & 4 (Seminars & Common Planning Time) • (rrr = .575, p =.120) • 42% reduced risk • (rrr = .443, p =.031)* George Mason University

  20. Outcomes Level of Elaboration for Induction Programs Model 5 (Supportive administration) • 79% reduced risk of leaving • (rrr = .205, p <. 000)* Model 6 (Reduced schedule) • (rrr = .362, p =.167) Model 7 (Extra classroom help) • (rrr = .480, p =.107)* Model 8 (All) • Supportive administration • 73% reduced risk of leaving (rrr= 0.273, p = 0.001)* George Mason University

  21. Outcomes Elaboration of Induction Programs Two supports (Administration and Mentor) • over four times as likely to remain in teaching with this induction program elaboration (e^b = 4.38, p < .000)*. Four supports (Above plus Common planning time and Seminars) • just under four times as likely to remain in teaching (e^b = 3.91, p < .000)*. Six supports (Above plus Reduced teacher schedule and Extra classroom help) • under four times more likely to remain teaching • (e^b = 3.67, p = .001)*. George Mason University

  22. Educational Significance Beginning teachers are reporting feeling least prepared to discipline and assess students, as well as select instructional materials. Controlling for teacher and school characteristics having a induction program with • a mentor teacher reduces the risk of leaving by 56%. • a common planning time with another teacher reduced the risk of leaving by 42%. • a supportive administration reduced the risk of leaving by 79%. Having an induction program with a supportive administration and all other induction program supports,while controlling for teacher and school characteristics, reduced risk of leaving teaching by 73%. George Mason University

  23. Educational Significance Various combinations of program supports demonstrating elaborations of the induction programs resulted in a beginning teacher being around four times more likely to remain in teaching. George Mason University

  24. Conclusions Despite the Glazerman et al. (2008) and Isenberg’s et al. (2009) studies that found no significant difference between teacher attrition rates and teachers’ feeling of preparedness after participating in an elaborate induction program, our findings suggest otherwise. These studies have also found no significant difference between teacher attrition rates and teachers’ participation in an elaborate induction program, where as our findings suggest that a beginning teacher would be much more likely to remain in teaching. George Mason University

  25. Conclusions Forgive us if we wonder if some aspect (the sample; the cluster random assignment of eligible teachers; HLM) of such a sophisticated study resulted in findings that differ from those of SASS. George Mason University

  26. Recommendation for Future Study We would propose that future “gold standard” studies determine if any of the school districts or schools or teachers studied are also in the 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey(SASS) or the 2008-2009 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), and that the comparison of results between these federal statistics and the more sophisticated and ambitious studies might be instructive. George Mason University

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