What Helps to Improve Teacher Retention? A Pathway Analysis of Factors Affecting Retention
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| Title: | What Helps to Improve Teacher Retention? A Pathway Analysis of Factors Affecting Retention |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Jack Worth, Juan Manuel del Pozo Segura, Lisa Kuhn, National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) (United Kingdom) |
| Source: | National Foundation for Educational Research. 2026. |
| Availability: | National Foundation for Educational Research. The Mere, Upton Park, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 2DQ, UK. Tel: +44-1753-574123; Fax: +44-1753-637280; e-mail: enquiries@nfer.ac.uk; Web site: http://www.nfer.ac.uk |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 58 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | Nuffield Foundation (United Kingdom) |
| Document Type: | Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Elementary Education Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Faculty Workload, Work Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Work Environment, Influences, Decision Making, Teacher Supply and Demand, Predictor Variables, Teacher Behavior, Intention, Well Being, Teacher Recruitment, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom (England) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-916567-49-8 |
| Abstract: | Teacher retention remains a key focus for education policy, with ongoing challenges in ensuring sufficient teacher supply, particularly for key subjects in secondary schools. A key Government objective is its pledge to recruit 'an additional 6,500 new expert teachers across secondary and special schools, and in our colleges, over the course of this Parliament'. Improving retention matters both for delivering this goal and for teacher sufficiency because, all else equal, more teachers retained leads to fewer vacancies, an increase in workforce size and lower ITT recruitment targets. This National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores the factors associated with the leaving decisions of teachers, to understand in greater detail what actions policymakers might take to further improve teacher retention rates. The authors aim to address two main research questions: (1) To what extent, and under what circumstances, is stated intention to leave teaching a good predictor or leading indicator of actual leaving?; and (2) What factors -- particularly granular aspects of teacher workload -- are most associated with teacher job satisfaction and retention? |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | ED679720 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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