This paper contributes to the limited knowledge about Australian early career teacher (ECT) attrition.

The population studied included ECTs employed by the Department of Education Western Australia from 2004–2018.

This quantitative study focused on ECT attrition rate and profiling ECTs who were likely to leave teaching, and used mixed-methods to investigate ECTs university preparation, intent to stay, resignation reasons and the combined supports received while employed.

Study findings reinforced the need for a standardised definition and method of measuring attrition to enable comparisons, and provided information to optimise conditions in retaining ECTs. Ultimately, this will inform planning for teacher workforce supply and provide justification to continue the scale and scope of support for ECTs to address ECT attrition.

本文有助于了解有关澳大利亚早期职业教师（ECT）减员的知识。

所研究的人群包括2004–2018年西澳大利亚州教育部雇用的ECT。

这项定量研究的重点是ECT的流失率和可能退出教学的ECT概况，并使用混合方法调查ECT的大学准备，住宿意向，辞职原因以及在使用期间获得的综合支持。

研究结果强调了对标准化损耗的定义和测量方法的需求，以进行比较，并提供了信息来优化保留ECT的条件。最终，这将为教师的劳动力供应计划提供依据，并为继续支持ECT的规模和范围提供理由，以解决ECT的减员问题。