Dear Colleague,
I am completing my doctoral studies at Youngstown State University. I am conducting a study to investigate teacher retention. I am inviting you to participate in a short online survey about your practices in the profession and your beliefs about your current administrator(s). If you agree to participate in this study, you will be asked to complete ten demographic questions that describe you, 42-item survey questions, and six selected response questions regarding your feelings about your future plans. The survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
Criteria to participate in the study:
Participants must currently teach in a PreK-12 traditional public or community school in Ohio. Teachers can teach any subject.
To the best of my ability, your answers in this study will be kept confidential. The online survey will not collect personal information like email addresses or computer IP addresses. Your answers will be sent to and stored on a password-protected link. No one, including myself, will know if you participated in the study. Please complete the survey on a computer with internet access.
You may not benefit directly from the research, but by participating in the study, you will provide meaningful information regarding teacher beliefs. Your participation in the study is completely voluntary, and you can withdraw at any time.
The online survey link will be open for three weeks. If you have questions about this project or have a problem with the survey, you may contact the researcher, Ariel Hayes, at 216-205-0993 or the Doctoral Chair, Dr. Karen Larwin, at (330) 941-2231. If you have questions about your rights as a participant in a research project, you may contact the Office of Research Services at YSUIRB@ysu.edu or at YSU 330-941-2377.
Thank you for your participation! Please consider forwarding this study request to teachers you know in the state of Ohio.
Please find the survey link below.
https://lnkd.in/egmE3Ygy
Chemistry Teacher
6moMs. Ellen, thank you for sharing this survey. I was a teacher for 11.5 years. For the most part, I enjoyed teaching. I want to emphasize that this was a survey, not a comparison of teacher job satisfaction to other persons job satisfaction, pay , and so forth. Not the same thing. What the survey can do is guide educational leaders in designing schools into spaces where all teachers can thrive and enjoy their work. Right now many schools are set up on schedules, all based on time. The structure is very 20th century. I taught high school the bulk of my teaching career. Only one school I worked at had a very nice concept. It was based on BIG picture learning. Three days a week, we had academics. The other two days students had to find internships (paid or unpaid), volunteer experiences, or jobs related to their future goals. At the end of the semester students provided an exhibition presentation on their experiences. Students who had not found experiences outside of school on Tuesday and Thursday focused came to school and received helped on interviewing skills, resume writing, job searching, career exploration, or if they needed to work on their credit hours they spent time in credit recovery.