One does not simply track students : the relationship between teachers’ perceived public track regard and their job satisfaction in a context of rigid tracking

Although there is a wealth of research on the educational and broader outcomes of tracking in education, there is virtually no research that investigates teachers’ track identities on such outcomes. Building on research that focuses on the determinants of teachers’ job satisfaction, tracking outcomes and social categorization theory, this study tests the relationship between the perceived public regard of a teachers’ track and their job satisfaction, in a Belgian context of within- (vocational, technical and general education tracks) and between-school tracking (multilateral versus categorical... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Dekeyser, Lorenz
Van Houtte, Mieke
Maene, Charlotte
Stevens, Peter
Dokumenttyp: journalarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Schlagwörter: Social Sciences / Sociology and Political Science / Developmental and Educational Psychology / Social Psychology / Teacher attitudes / Secondary school teachers / Statistical analysis / Belgium / Ability Grouping / Teacher job satisfaction
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26589702
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Link(s) : https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8719257

Although there is a wealth of research on the educational and broader outcomes of tracking in education, there is virtually no research that investigates teachers’ track identities on such outcomes. Building on research that focuses on the determinants of teachers’ job satisfaction, tracking outcomes and social categorization theory, this study tests the relationship between the perceived public regard of a teachers’ track and their job satisfaction, in a Belgian context of within- (vocational, technical and general education tracks) and between-school tracking (multilateral versus categorical schools). Data of the Belgian SIS (School, Identity and Society)-survey, a large-scale dataset gathered in 2017, containing the self-reports of 324 teachers, clustered in 43 secondary schools is used to test particular hypotheses regarding this relationship. The results of a multilevel analysis show that the relationship between teachers’ public track regard and their job satisfaction varies according to the track they teach and whether they work in a categorical or multilateral school. The findings highlight the importance of carrying out further research on tracked identities in education.