TY - JOUR
T1 - An examination of school leadership types and their effect on teacher turnover intentions
T2 - Evidence from TALIS
AU - Sipahioglu, Mete
AU - Mifsud, Denise
AU - Eryilmaz, Nurullah
PY - 2025/4/21
Y1 - 2025/4/21
N2 - Teacher turnover due to school transitions disrupts stability and performance globally. This study examines how instructional and distributed leadership relate to teachers' intentions to change schools using 2013 and 2018 TALIS survey data from 250,000 educators across 48 systems. Multilevel modeling showed distributed leadership negatively correlated with turnover intentions, while instructional leadership had no significant effect. However, country-specific analyses revealed no consistent patterns, underscoring context dependence. These findings highlight the nuanced role of leadership in retention, emphasizing the need for comparative research on cultural moderators to inform localized retention strategies worldwide.
AB - Teacher turnover due to school transitions disrupts stability and performance globally. This study examines how instructional and distributed leadership relate to teachers' intentions to change schools using 2013 and 2018 TALIS survey data from 250,000 educators across 48 systems. Multilevel modeling showed distributed leadership negatively correlated with turnover intentions, while instructional leadership had no significant effect. However, country-specific analyses revealed no consistent patterns, underscoring context dependence. These findings highlight the nuanced role of leadership in retention, emphasizing the need for comparative research on cultural moderators to inform localized retention strategies worldwide.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105003203522&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15700763.2025.2493195
DO - 10.1080/15700763.2025.2493195
M3 - Article
SN - 1570-0763
JO - Leadership and Policy in Schools
JF - Leadership and Policy in Schools
ER -