The Revolving Door of Education: Teacher Turnover and Retention amongst the Graduates of a Liberal Arts Teacher Education Program

In the United States, elementary and secondary education teachers comprise 4% of the entire civilian workforce (Ingersoll, 2001). The composition of that 4% is changing because of teacher turnover. According to recent statistics, 46% of teachers leave the classroom within the first five years of teaching and 9.5% of teachers leave the classroom within their first year (Rinke, 2014; Riggs, 2013; Zheng & Zeller, 2016). This study is designed to examine the teaching experiences of graduates of one teacher education program and the potential differences between graduates who stay in teaching and those who leave. Throughout this study, the guiding questions were: How many Gettysburg College Teacher Education Program Alumni, 1985 - 2008, are still teaching in the classroom at a primary or secondary level? Why did some alumni leave the classroom at a primary or secondary level and why did some alumni never teach? How does the data from the Gettysburg College Teacher Education Program alumni correspond with the previous scholarship on teacher turnover and retention? When looked at from the perspective of an individual post-secondary institution, the individual stories of the alumni emerge and so does the complexity of teacher turnover and retention in America, which is not always reflected in studies conducting on a state or national level

KINERJA ALUMNI PRODI PKO SEBAGAI GURU PENJAS DI SEKOLAH

This research aims at determining the performance of alumni of Department of Coaching Education, Faculty of Sport Science, Yogyakarta State University, as teachers of physical education in schools. As physical education teachers, the alumni of Department of Coaching Education have been supplied with materials related to mastery of the subjects, understanding the students, mastery of instructional methods, and self and professionalism development. Thus, the alumni of Department of Coaching Education also acquire Akta IV (Teaching License) which states that the graduates of Department of Coaching Education are capable in teaching physical education in schools. This study used survey as the research method. The samples were all alumni of Department of Coaching Education, Faculty of Sport Science of YSU who were working as teachers in both state and private schools from the elementary level up to the university level. The samples were determined through the quota sample method. The number of the teachers were 68. The instrument of data collection was in the form of questionnaires containing 4 main factors: (1) subject mastery, (2) understanding the students, (3) mastery of instructional methods, and (4) self and professionalism development. The data were analyzed using descriptive, non-statistic analysis. The result of this research showed that in average, the performance of the alumni of Department of Coaching Education as the teachers of physical education in schools was very good. The results showed that (1) 91,48% of the teachers mastered the subject, (2) 93,38% of the teachers understood the students, (3) 93,25% of the teachers master instructional methods, and (4) 93,14% of the teachers were able to develop their personality and professionalism

Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Giving

This paper uses a unique data set to assess whether donors' contributions to a nonprofit institution are affected by the perception that the institution might confer a reciprocal benefit. We study alumni contributions to an anonymous research university. Inter alia, the data include information on the ages of the alumni's children, whether they applied for admission to the university, and if so, whether they were accepted. The premise of our analysis is simple: If alumni believe that donations will increase the likelihood of admission for their children and if this belief helps motivate their giving, then the pattern of giving should vary systematically with the ages of their children, whether the children ultimately apply to university, and the outcome of the admissions process. We refer to this pattern as the child-cycle of alumni giving. If the child-cycle is operative, one would observe that, ceteris paribus, the presence of children increases the propensity to give, that giving drops off after the admissions decision is made, and that the decline is greater when the child is rejected by the university. Further, under the joint hypothesis that alumni can reasonably predict the likelihood that their children will someday apply to the university and that reciprocity in the form of a higher probability of admission is expected, we expect that alumni with children in their early teens who eventually apply will give more than alumni whose teenagers do not. The evidence is strongly consistent with the child-cycle pattern. Thus, while altruism drives some giving, the hope for a reciprocal benefit plays a role as well. Using our results, we compute rough estimates of the proportion of giving due to selfish motives.

Analisis Business Intelligence Pada Pengelolaan Data Alumni: Upaya Mendukung Monitoring Kualitas Alumni Di Perguruan Tinggi (Studi Kasus Di Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Sriwijaya)

Salah satu tolak ukur keberhasilan pendidikan di perguruan tinggi adalah jumlah dan kualitas alumni yang dihasilkan. Sistem pengelolaan atau penelusuran alumni berbasis komputer dapat meningkatkan pengelolaan dokumentasi alumni. Akan tetapi, dokumentasi alumni tersebut menjadi kurang optimal jika tidak dapat menghasilkan informasi-informasi bagi pengelola dalam memonitor dan mengevaluasi kualitas alumni. Penerapan Electronic Business Intelligence System (E-BIS) dalam pengelolaan data alumni di tingkat fakultas suatu perguruan tinggi menekankan penerapan BIS dengan media Internet sehingga mengedepankan aspek aksesibilitas dari manajemen seperti dekan, ketua jurusan dan bagian kemahasiswaan untuk mendapatkan informasi terkait alumni. Pengelolaan data yang baik dan penyediaan informasi yang maksimal terkait profil alumni, masa tunggu alumni untuk mendapatkan kerja, institusi pengguna alumni dan lain-lain. Selanjutnya mengoptimalkan proses monitoring kualitas alumni untuk peningkatan kualitas alumni secara berkelanjutan. Oleh karena itu, perlu dianalisis tentang perlunya BI dalam proses pengolahan data alumni tersebut. Analisis BI pada Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Sriwijaya menggunakan business intelligence roadmap meliputi fase justification, planning, dan business analysis mengusulkan solusi BI yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhan informasi pihak eksekutif untuk monitoring data alumni. Kebutuhan informasi meliputi jumlah peserta untuk setiap periode wisuda berdasarkan program studi, angkatan dan jenjang; tren IPK dan masa studi alumni per setiap periode wisuda serta laporan relasi atau keterhubungan antara IPK dan masa studi alumni untuk melihat langkah-langkah dalam meningkatkan kualitas alumni

Sistem Informasi Alumni Teknik Informatika Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta Berbasis Web

Sistem Informasi Alumni Teknik Informatika Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS) ini dibuat karena belum adanya sistem pengelolaan data alumni yang diimplementasikan di Program Pendidikan Teknik Informatika UMS. Padahal pengelolaan dan pemberdayaan alumni sangat penting bagi pengembangan Program Pendidikan. Sistem Informasi ini dibangun dengan menggunakan bahasa pemrograman PHP dan basis data MySQL. Perancangan sistem informasi ini dimulai dengan melakukan observasi, analisa dan perumusan masalah, kemudian pengumpulan data, dan selanjutnya melalui tahapan perancangan dan pembuatan sistem. Sistem dibuat dengan berbagai referensi yang didapat, selanjutnya dilakukan uji coba dengan localhost dan dijalankan dengan browser Mozilla Firefox.Dengan adanya sistem informasi alumni ini, alumni dapat bertukar informasi, dan progdi dapat memantau perkembangan alumni setelah menyelesaikan studi di UMS. Sistem informasi ini dapat diakses secara online sehingga batasan waktu dan jarak tidak menjadi masalah bagi alumni untuk saling berinteraksi. Sistem informasi ini bersifat dinamis, sehingga informasi yang disajikan dalam web ini dapat selalu dimutakhirkan

Perancangan Sistem Informasi Tracerstudy Menggunakan Aplikasi Open Source di Universitas

-- Keberhasilan alumni di dunia kerja atau industri menjadi salah satu tolak ukur keberhasilan perguruan tinggi dalam mendidik dan menghasilkan lulusannya. Untuk mengetahui keberhasilan para alumni maka dibutuhkan suatu sistem yang dapat menarik data dari Perusahaan tempat alumni bekerja dan dari alumni itu sendiri. Cara konvensional dengan membagikan kuisioner berbasis kertas dan/ atau mengunjungi Perusahaan dirasa kurang efektif karena membutuhkan waktu dan biaya yang banyak. Kemajuan teknologi memberikan suatu jalan atau cara yang lebih mudah dan murah namun membutuhkan pengetahuan di bidang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi terutama di bidang keterampilan komputer. Pada penelitian ini, peneliti mencoba meng-alih mediakan kuisioner konvensional menjadi suatu sistem yang disebut sistem aplikasi tracer study berbasis web. Dengan menggunakan aplikasi yang berbasis web dan internet diharapkan penyampaian dan pengumpulan kuisioner menjadi lebih mudah, cepat, dan murah. Dengan terkumpulnya data yang sebanyak-banyaknya memungkinkan perhitungan dan perkiraan keberhasilan alumni semakin akurat. Dengan data keberhasilan alumni yang akurat maka universitas dapat menggunakan data tersebut sebagai acuan dalam menentukan perbaikan atau peningkatan dalam berbagai sektor di dalam tubuh universitas itu sendiri. Dengan peningkatan yang berlandaskan pada data tracerstudy diharapkan pengembangan universitas akan lebih diterima oleh seluruh stakeholde