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Download full textBen Backes; James Cowan; Dan Goldhaber – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Departmentalized instruction, in which teachers specialize in one or more core subjects and instruct multiple groups of students in a day, has become increasingly prominent in elementary schools. Using 8 years of data from Massachusetts and a difference-in-differences design, we estimate the effects of departmentalization on student achievement.…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Effectiveness, Departments, Teaching Methods
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Direct linkBen Backes; James Cowan; Dan Goldhaber; Zeyu Jin; Roddy Theobald – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Graduates of special education teacher education programs can teach in a range of special education settings, raising the potential that their training can occur in very different settings than where they find their first jobs. We follow 263 completers of Moderate Disabilities programs in the U.S. state of Massachusetts from their field placements…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Placement, Inclusion
Ben Backes; James Cowan; Dan Goldhaber; Zeyu Jin; Roddy Theobald – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Graduates of special education teacher education programs can teach in a range of special education settings, raising the potential that their training can occur in very different settings than where they find their first jobs. We follow 263 completers of Moderate Disabilities programs in Massachusetts from their field placements to their…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Placement, Inclusion
