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- Title
Exploring the Effect of Supportive Teacher Evaluation Experiences on U.S. Teacher's Job Satisfaction.
- Authors
Ford, Timothy G.; Urick, Angela; Wilson, Alison S. P.
- Abstract
Teacher satisfaction is a key affective reaction to working conditions and an important predictor of teacher attrition. Teacher evaluation as a tool for measuring teacher quality has been one source of teacher stress in recent years in the United States. There is a growing body of evidence on how to evaluate teachers in ways which support their growth and development as practitioners. For this study, we inquired: What is the relationship between supportive teacher evaluation experiences and U.S. teacher's overall job satisfaction? To answer this question, we employed a multilevel regression analysis to multiply-imputed data on U.S. lower-secondary teacher's experiences from the 2013 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). We found a small, positive relationship between the perceptions of supportive teacher evaluation experiences and U.S. secondary teacher's satisfaction after controlling for other important teacher and school characteristics and working conditions. Further, teachers who felt their evaluation led to positive changes in their practice had higher satisfaction. Teachers whose primary evaluator was a fellow teacher as opposed to the principal also had higher satisfaction on average. We discuss the implications of these findings for school leaders as well as future teacher evaluation policy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TEACHER evaluation; JOB satisfaction of teachers; TEACHERS; EMPLOYEE motivation; TEACHER attrition
- Publication
Education Policy Analysis Archives / Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas / Arquivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 58/59, p1
- ISSN
1068-2341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14507/epaa.26.3559