Elementary/Secondary School Teaching Among Recent College Graduates: 1994 and 2001

Title:	Elementary/Secondary School Teaching Among Recent College Graduates: 1994 and 2001
Description:	This report discusses teaching in elementary and secondary schools, preparing to teach at the elementary/secondary level, and considering teaching among 1999-2000 college graduates as of 2001 (i.e., within about a year of completing the bachelor’s degree). It is based on data from the 2000/01 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:2000/01), a spring 2001 follow-up of bachelor’s degree recipients from the 1999-2000 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:2000). The report examines whether graduates who differed in demographic characteristics (gender and race/ethnicity) and undergraduate academic characteristics (types of institutions attended, college entrance examination scores, undergraduate grade point averages, and major fields of study) also differed in terms of teaching and teaching-related behaviors as of 2001. The report also compares teaching and teaching-related behaviors of the 1999-2000 cohort as of 2001 with those of the 1992-93 cohort as of 1994. The analyses indicate that 12 percent of graduates had taught in an elementary/secondary school in the year following graduation, and that teaching was more common among women, among graduates who received their degrees from public and from non-doctorate-granting institutions, and among graduates with higher cumulative undergraduate GPAs but lower college entrance examination scores. The proportion of graduates who had taught within a year of receiving a bachelor’s degree increased slightly, from 10 to 12 percent, between graduates who received their degrees in 1992-93 and 1999-2000, respectively.
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Cover Date:	July 2005
Web Release:	August 5, 2005
Print Release:	This Publication will only be available online.
Publication #:	NCES 2005161 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Robin R. Henke, Katharin Peter, and Sonya Geis
Type of Product:	Statistical Analysis Report
Survey/Program Areas:	Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B)
Keywords:	Bachelor's Degrees • recipients one year later Teachers • characteristics of • education/preparation • job satisfaction
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