Perceived workplace conditions and first-year teachers' morale, career choice commitment, and planned retention: A secondary analysis

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 861-879

  Weiss, Eileen Mary ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New teacher commitment; New teacher retention; School workplace conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346550144     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-051X(99)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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