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Bruno, Paul; Strunk, Katharine O. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019
Many schools and districts have considerable discretion when hiring teachers, yet little is known about how that discretion should be used. Using data from a new teacher screening system in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), we find that performance during screening, and especially performance on specific screening assessments, is…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Teacher Evaluation, School Districts, Screening Tests
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Hansen, Michael; Backes, Ben; Brady, Victoria – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Retaining effective teachers is a key policy priority nationwide, particularly in districts that serve large numbers of disadvantaged students. We investigate whether a change in the Miami region's Teach for America (TFA) placement strategy was accompanied by changes in teacher attrition and mobility decisions. Our results suggest that the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Placement, Alternative Teacher Certification
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Martínez, José Felipe; Schweig, Jonathan; Goldschmidt, Pete – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
A key question facing teacher evaluation systems is how to combine multiple measures of complex constructs into composite indicators of performance. We use data from the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study to investigate the measurement properties of composite indicators obtained under various conjunctive, disjunctive (or complementary),…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Outcome Measures, Evaluation Methods, Educational Policy