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AN ANALYSIS OF THE ATTITUDES OF NEBRASKA TEACHERS TOWARD THREE EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
Abstract
This exploratory study was designed to assess attitudes and feelings toward retirement possessed by Nebraska teachers as well as to estimate the financial gain or loss to teachers and to school districts upon implementation of an early retirement incentive program. In this study, some of the pertinent research relative to perceptions of teachers toward early retirement was examined and a number of general hypotheses which related the needs of teachers to three early retirement options were tested. Subjects consisted of 216 teachers having 30 or more years of experience in education and representing six classes of Nebraska school districts as categorized by the Nebraska Department of Education. Two instruments were utilized to collect data from the sample population. The initial instrument was a questionnaire consisting of 18 variables and describing three early retirement incentive options. The options involved payment of a stipend to reduce losses from Social Security and from the state teacher retirement fund incurred by early retirement. A third retirement incentive allowed early retirees to work part time for the district following retirement. Respondents were asked to rank order the retirement options and also to rate the degree of acceptance of each retirement option proposed in the study and to select the age at which they would accept a preferred early retirement option should it be adopted by their school district. The second data collecting technique was an interview with 15 respondents to the initial questionnaire. A structured interview format was utilized to focus upon the attitudes and feelings of the participants regarding early retirement. The study involved the use of correlation and crosstabulation analysis to test the relationship between the variables selected for examination with the three early retirement options proposed in the study. The variables consisted of the enrollment and class of Nebraska school district as well as personal characteristics of the respondents. Findings indicated significant relationships between selected variables and each of the three early retirement options. Solicited anecdotal data from the interview phase were summarized in the study. An analysis of fiscal implications was provided for school districts and for teachers upon adoption of the early retirement options proposed in the study.
Subject Area
School finance
Recommended Citation
SWARTZ, DAVID LEROY, "AN ANALYSIS OF THE ATTITUDES OF NEBRASKA TEACHERS TOWARD THREE EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAMS" (1981). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8122604.
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