A Gender Analysis of Job Satisfaction Levels of Agricultural Education Teachers in Georgia

Previous research has determined that job satisfaction among teachers holds a strong linear relationship with longevity of career (Billingsley and Cross, 1992,Cano & Miller, 1992). In light of the current shortage of qualified secondary agricultural educators who are willing to enter and remain in the profession (Kantrovich, 2007) as well as the projected shortages in agricultural educators in the years to come (Walker, Garton & Kitchel 2004), it is important to understand the factors that impact job satisfaction and, possibly more crucially, those factors that influence job dissatisfaction for secondary agriculture teachers to provide insight toward retention of quality educators. Camp (2000)identified the agriculture teacher shortage problem as early as 1977, and the problem has continued well into its third decade (Walker, Garton, & Kitchel, 2004).