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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: Analysis of Induction-Year Agricultural Education Teachers' Attitude toward Teaching during the 2011-2012 School Year in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico
  name:
    name part: Lawrence, Shannon Gordon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rayfield, John
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Teacher shortages are a critical issue for education, and agricultural education has not been exempt from this trend. Many factors possibly contribute to this lack of qualified teachers. Researchers suggest that retention practices, stress factors associated with agricultural education, and job satisfaction may be areas for improvement within the profession. A deeper understanding of the problems beginning teachers experience is a critical first step in raising the retention rate for new teachers. An original researcher-designed instrument based on Moir was composed of 66 items intended to measure induction-year teachers' attitude toward teaching and was administered at six different points in time to induction-year agriculture teachers in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico during the 2011-2012 school year. Data collection occurred via a mixed mode design following the Tailored Design Method. The overall response rate was 52.5% with 197 responses to the instrument. All 66 scale items from the original questionnaire were included in the principal component analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation; coefficients with an absolute value less than 0.45 were suppressed. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) of sampling adequacy was 0.787 and Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant (p < 0.001). Factor analysis yielded a nine factor solution using varimax rotation. Forty-five items composed the Agricultural Education Induction-Year Teacher Attitudinal Scale. Descriptive names for the constructs were the product of 20 experts in the field of agricultural education: "Professional Efficacy," "Balanced Reflection," "Professional Commitment," "Professional Confidence," "Anticipated Change," "Work-Life Balance," "Strategic Renewal," "Problem Solving," and "Professional Resolve." Overall reliability coefficient for the proposed new instrument was 0.88. Overall attitude toward teaching was not statistically significantly different across measures. No significant predictors of attitude toward …
  note: by Shannon Gordon Lawrence.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148390
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
  subject:
    topic: Teacher Attrition
  subject:
    topic: Instrument Development
  subject:
    topic: Induction-year
  subject:
    topic: Induction-year teacher
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148390
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 131218
    record change date: 20151206090644.0
    record identifier: in00003400083
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng