School Leaders' Preferences for Teacher Applicant Characteristics in a Large Urban School District

Autor/inn/en	Ingle, W. Kyle; Choi, Namok; Munoz, Marco A.
Titel	School Leaders' Preferences for Teacher Applicant Characteristics in a Large Urban School District
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration, 59 (2021) 5, S.615-633 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ingle, W. Kyle) ORCID (Munoz, Marco A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-8234
DOI	10.1108/JEA-10-2020-0213
Schlagwörter	Preferences; Principals; Assistant Principals; Administrator Characteristics; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Selection; Teacher Qualifications; Personality Traits; Achievement Gains; Urban Schools; School Districts; Elementary Secondary Education; Job Applicants; Selection Criteria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Principal; Schulleiter; Principals; Stellvertretende Schulleitung; Lehrqualifikation; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Bewerber; Selection criterion; Auslesekriterium
Abstract	Purpose: We surveyed educational leaders in a large, urban school district in the southeastern United States, examining: (1) the factor structure of scores from a new measure of administrators' preferred teacher applicant characteristics, and (2) the relationships between administrator demographics and their preferences. Design/methodology/approach: We implemented a non-experimental, cross-sectional survey design using the Preferred Teacher Applicant Characteristics Survey (PTACS). We undertook descriptive and exploratory factor analyses in order to examine dimensions and underlying patterns among the 31 survey items. The retained factors served as the dependent variables in our multiple regression analyses. Findings: We identified a four-factor structure: (1) personal, (2) professional, (3) student outcomes, and (4) demographics. Our analyses suggest that there was not meaningful variability in administrators' preferred characteristics of applicants across racial and gender variables, but revealed a significant difference between principals and assistant principals for applicant demographics. Research limitations/implications: Our findings are limited in their generalizability to the respondents from a single urban district who completed our survey in spring 2018. Although we cannot establish causation, the significant difference between principals and assistant principals for demographics may result from principals feeling greater pressure from district targets to hire diverse staff than their assistant principal counterparts. It is important to note that preferences for teacher applicant characteristics are different from actual hiring decisions and the availability of preferred characteristics. Originality/value: Our study is the first large-scale use of the instrument in a large US urban school district, a context, which poses significant challenges to the education of youth as well as the hiring and retention of educators. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Emerald Publishing Limited. Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, West Yorkshire, BD16 1WA, UK. Tel: +44-1274-777700; Fax: +44-1274-785201; e-mail: emerald@emeraldinsight.com; Web site: http://www.emerald.com/insight
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01