Degree Name
EdD (Doctor of Education)
Program
Educational Leadership
Date of Award
5-2020
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Pamela Scott
Committee Members
William Flora, Don Good, Todd Griffin
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the Tennessee tenure law by comparing the overall level of effectiveness of teachers who received tenure prior to receiving tenure and the overall level of effectiveness of teachers after receiving tenure. The population of this study includes teachers from districts in the Mid Cumberland region in Tennessee who received tenure after 2012. The major finding of this study was the effectiveness of teachers who received tenure under the current tenure law in Tennessee did not significantly change for up to two years after they received tenure. The lone exception was high school teachers. Their effectiveness significantly declined two years after receiving tenure. This study concluded that the current tenure law in Tennessee had components of effective policies as found in research and had safeguards in place to ensure only effective teachers were awarded tenure.
Document Type
Dissertation - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Winstead, Lucas, "Teacher Tenure in K-12 Public Education: A Study of Tennessee Tenure Law" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3692. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3692
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.