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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• The rise of for-profit teacher preparation programmes: investigating career outcomes for novice teachers (2024) · doi

  With many countries facing teacher shortages, retention for novice teachers is a key area of focus for educational leaders and policymakers – yet there is a lack of evidence related to the relationship between new alternative pathways into the profession and retention patterns.

  Keywords: retention countries facing teacher shortages novice teachers area focus educational leaders policymakers there lack evidence
• Novice Teachers’ Experiences in High-Poverty Schools: An Integrative Literature Review (2017) · doi

  We identified common themes in extant studies, as well as several important areas of research that are, to date, under-studied; most notably, more research is needed to explore differences in novices’ experiences of their working conditions in high- versus low-poverty schools, and the implications of those differences for teacher development and retention.

  Keywords: differences identified common themes extant well several important areas date studied notably needed explore novices
• Students’ science attitudes, beliefs, and context: associations with science and chemistry aspirations (2018) · doi

  Yet it remains unclear how different aspects of students’ background and home context, their own attitudes and beliefs, and their experiences of particular teaching approaches in school might limit or facilitate their studying aspirations; concurrently, less research has specifically focused on and surveyed disadvantaged students.

  Keywords: students remains unclear different aspects background home context attitudes beliefs experiences particular teaching approaches school