Satisfaction of Employers and Employment Milestones

Satisfaction of employers and stakeholder involvement

The COE measures the satisfaction of employers through the Persistence category of the NJ EPPPR for initial programs, a NJ DOE data request on persistence for advanced program completers and its employer survey.  

Results from Persistence 

The Persistence category of the NJ EPPPR are the program completers who continued with their employment at the school, district or state from one year to the next. Decisions on employment are tied to school, district, and state budgets. More often than not, employment decisions reflect fiscal budgets rather than completer performance. This is evident based on the positive results of the Teacher Evaluation results reported above for both WP and NJ program graduates.  

Initial programs 

The majority of WP graduates and NJ graduates continued with their employment from one year to the next.   

Below are the Persistence trend results of the WP graduates’ performance compared to the state. 

  • 2023 Persistence trend results of 2020-2021 completers: 88 of 109 WP graduates and 1704 of 2141 NJ graduates were employed in 2021-2022.  (NEW)
Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2021-2022 were at the school level 68.1% for WP and 65.5% for NJ; at the district level, 72.7% for WP and 69.0% for NJ; and at the state level 83.0% for WP and 78.7% for NJ.  (NEW)

  • 2020 Persistence trend results of 2017-2018 completers: 109 of 153 WP graduates and 1932 of 2797 NJ graduates were employed in 2018-2019.  
Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2019-2020 were at the school level 50.5% for WP and 57% for NJ; at the district level, 54.1% for WP and 60.7% for NJ; and at the state level 67.9% for WP and 72.3% for NJ.  
  • 2020 Persistence trend results for 2016-2017 completers: 136 of 215 WP graduates and 1842 out of 2972 NJ graduates were employed in the 2018-2019 school year.
  • 2019 Persistence trend results: 136 WP graduates and 1842 NJ graduates were employed in 2017-2018.   

Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2018-2019 were: at the school level 57% for WP and 59% for NJ, at the district level 62% for WP and 63% for NJ and at the state level 71% for WP and 75% for NJ.  

  • 2019 Persistence trend results: 146 WP graduates and 1548 NJ graduates were employed in 2016-2017.    

Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2017-2018 were: at the school level 66% for WP and 71% for NJ, at the district level 70% for WP and 76% for NJ and state level 87% for WP and 90% for NJ.  

  • 2018 Persistence trend for results: 146 WP graduates and 1842 NJ graduates were employed in 2016-2017.   

Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2017-2018 were: at the school level 66% for WP and 59% for NJ, at the district level 70% for WP and 63% for NJ, and at the state level 87% for WP and 75% for NJ.  

  • 2018 Persistence trend for results: 149 WP graduates and 1548 NJ graduates were employed in 2015-2016.   

Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2016-2017 were: at the school level 67% for WP and 71%, at the district level 73% for WP and 76% for NJ, and at the state level 87% for WP and 90% for NJ.  

  • 2017 Persistence trend for results: 212 WP graduates and 2156 NJ graduates were employed in 2015-2016.   

Of those employed, completers who maintained employment in 2016-2017 were: at the school level 52% for WP and 57% for NJ, at the district level and 59% for WP and 63% for NJ and at the state level 89% for WP and 90% for NJ.  

Advanced programs 

Advanced WP program completers continued with their employment from one year to the next from 2017-2020. 45% of those employed in 2017-2018 in their new endorsement area, maintained employment in 2018-2019 and 39% maintained employment in 2019-2020. 

Employer Survey 

The Employer Survey is intended to provide feedback to the COE on how well program completers perform in their roles as educators and whether employers would continue to hire WP graduates. It was designed to measure: 1) employers’ level of satisfaction of our graduates and 2) employers’ perceptions of our graduates’ degree of preparation in content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and practice, professional responsibility, and understanding learners.  

Securing employer satisfaction data for William Paterson completers has always been and remains a challenge because NJ does not have a process in place for gathering such data. In response, the COE has developed a new protocol for collecting employer satisfaction data (CAEP 4.2 Measure 3 and A.4.1). 

Initial Programs

How satisfied were you with the preparation this graduate of the program received at WPUNJ?

2020-2021: Satisfied/Very Satisfied: 97% (n=28)

How likely are you to hire an additional graduate of the program who was prepared at WPU?

2020-2021: Likely/Very Likely: 93% (n=28) 

Advanced Programs

Overall, how satisfied are you with the preparation this educator/educational specialist received from WPU?

2020-2021: Satisfied/Very Satisfied: 96% (n=28)

How likely are you to hire an additional educators/educational specialists who were prepared at WPU?

2020-2021: Likely/Very Likely: 93% (n=28) 

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