The implementation of Common Core Standards and teacher intent to persist

• Main Author: Smith, Eddie Miles Louis
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01-01-2014
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Academic Standards; Alternative Teacher Certification; Beginning Teachers; Education Policy; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Educational Researchers; Elementary education; Faculty Mobility; Learner Engagement; Middle School education; Preservice Teachers; Secondary education; Standardized Tests; Teacher Certification; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher education; Teacher Educators; Teacher Persistence; Teaching Methods; Teaching Skills; Urban Schools
• ISBN: 9781321199901; 1321199902

The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of the Common Core Standards (CCS) into schools had an impact on teacher intent to persist in the classroom. Specifically, this study sought to determine if the implementation of the CCS was a factor of novice and veteran teachers’ intent to persist in schools located in south Mississippi. A review of the literature indicated that teacher shortages were not primarily due to recruitment and training, but rather, to a significant extent, were the result of teachers leaving the profession long before retirement (Ingersoll & Smith, 2004). Data were collected and analyzed from 208 participants located in three school districts in south Mississippi regarding their perspectives on the implementation of the Common Core Standards and their intent to persist in the classroom. Results indicated that there were no significant differences in teachers’ perspectives by grade levels taught or between novice and veteran teachers regarding the implementation of the CCS. However, there was a small significant correlation between the implementation of the CCS and teachers’ intent to persist in the classroom. Responses to the survey questions suggest that teachers were happy in their current teaching positions and believe the CCS will fade away like many other government mandates have done in the past. The implications of this study suggest that the implementation of the Common Core Standards does have an impact on teachers’ intent to persist in the classroom.