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Teacher turnover and teacher shortages: An organizational analysis
- American Educational Research Journal
, 2001
"... Contemporary educational theory holds that one of the pivotal causes of inadequate school performance is the inability of schools to adequately staff classrooms with qualified teachers. Contemporary theory also holds that these staffing problems are primarily due to shortages of teachers, which, in ..."
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, in turn, are primarily due to recent increases in teacher retirements and student enrollments. This analysis investigates the possibility that there are other factors that might have an impact on teacher turnover levels, and, in turn, the staffing problems of schools, factors rooted in the organizational
The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence From Panel Data
, 2003
"... Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little ev-idence that teachers ’ credentials matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers ’ characteristics–both observ-able and unobservable–it is essential to identify teache ..."
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teacher fixed effects. Unlike previous studies, I use panel data to estimate teacher fixed effects while control-ling for fixed student characteristics and classroom specific variables. I find large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher
(Cornell University)
, 2012
"... Given the prevalence of districts offering older teachers incentives to retire early in order to fill budget gaps and the rising average age of the teachers, the composition of teachers will change dramatically in coming years. However, there currently is no information on how these changes in the t ..."
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in the teacher workforce will affect student achievement. We use exogenous variation in teacher retirement behavior driven by an early retirement incentive program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to identify the effects of large-scale teacher retirements on student achievement. We find the program did not reduce
Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: linkages to ways of thinking and practicing
- In C. Rust (Ed.), Improving
, 2003
"... This paper arises from ongoing research undertaken by the Economics team of the ESRC / TLRP Project ‘Enhancing Teaching and Learning Environments ’ (ETL)1. This forms part of the large scale ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme Phase 2. ETL is seeking to identify factors leading to high qua ..."
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This paper arises from ongoing research undertaken by the Economics team of the ESRC / TLRP Project ‘Enhancing Teaching and Learning Environments ’ (ETL)1. This forms part of the large scale ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme Phase 2. ETL is seeking to identify factors leading to high
Getting to scale with good educational practice
- Harvard Educational Review
, 1996
"... How can good educational practice move beyond pockets of excellence to reach a much greater proportion of students and educators? While many children and young adults in school districts and communities around the country have long benefited from the tremendous accomplishments of successful teachers ..."
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teachers, school, and programs, replicating this success on a larger scale has proven to be a difficult and vexing issue. In this article, Richard Elmore addresses this problem b y analyzing the role of school organi-zation and incentive structures in thwarting large-scale adoption of innovative prac
Retirement
"... Higher salaries and improved working conditions have combined to make teaching a more attractive profession and to reduce teacher turnover rates. At the same time, however, the teaching work force has aged and faces problems in retirement programs. All levels of government should work with intereste ..."
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Higher salaries and improved working conditions have combined to make teaching a more attractive profession and to reduce teacher turnover rates. At the same time, however, the teaching work force has aged and faces problems in retirement programs. All levels of government should work
• Classroom and large-scale assessment: the
, 2011
"... current problem • The idea of a Learning Progression • A 3-part strategy for resolving the problem Linking summative to formative… • Formative Assessment: A Definition: An assessment activity is formative if it can help learning by providing information to be used as feedback, by teachers, and by th ..."
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testing programs • To have the results of the large-scale tests be useful “diagnostically ” to teachers in the classroom • Asked for by State Testing Directors, promised by testing companies … The wish of large-scale national testing programs: Diagnostic State Tests • A common “solution:” – give raw
Large-Scale Reform Initiative
, 2005
"... The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria is grateful for the work done over the period represented by this research, 1998 to 2003, by the authors, Professor Peter Hill and Ms Carmel Crévola. Both have contributed significantly by providing the general model of school improvement with the nine d ..."
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design elements that have shaped and influenced literacy provision in Victorian Catholic schools in direct and powerful ways. They have also contributed their expertise to the analysis of Prep to Year 2 literacy data and guided literacy professional development programs for teachers, literacy
Parent styles associated with children’s self-regulation and competence in school
- Journal of Educational Psychology
, 1989
"... This study assessed three dimensions of parent style, autonomy support, involvement, and provision of structure in 64 mothers and 50 fathers of elementary-school chi dren in Grades 3-6, using a structured interview. Construct validity data for the interview ratings uggested that the three parent dim ..."
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associations between home characteristics, demographic variables, and achievement-relevant ou comes (e.g., Belz & Geary, 1984, Jencks, 1972; Marjoribanks, 1980). More recently, large-scale survey studies have begun to link specific attributes of parent style or behavior to child achieve-ment and adjustment
TO LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENT
"... This study examined factors at the school, district, and provincial level that influenced school administrators ’ responses to large-scale assessment. To understand administrators ’ perspectives, 5 secondary and 4 elementary administrators from a suburban school district in southern Ontario, Canada ..."
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This study examined factors at the school, district, and provincial level that influenced school administrators ’ responses to large-scale assessment. To understand administrators ’ perspectives, 5 secondary and 4 elementary administrators from a suburban school district in southern Ontario, Canada
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