Abstract
Special education teacher educators are currently faced with the challenge of meeting the manpower requirements of a rapidly growing and changing field. They are doing this in the context of diminishing resources both within the field and within higher education. To examine present job conditions and relationships between professional satisfaction of special education teacher educators and personal and job-related characteristics, a nationwide survey was conducted in the spring and summer of 1982. More than 600 persons completed a questionnaire soliciting information about those conditions and ratings of their satisfaction with various aspects of their work. Factor analysis indicated five discrete job satisfaction factors. Analysis of variance procedures yielded statistically significant differences on these factors according to age, marital status, sex, academic rank, tenure status, salary, and number of years in higher education and in present position. A number of interpretations of these results are discussed.
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