Most Alder graduates are hired as full-time teachers and are rated more effective than other first-year teachers by their school leaders¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? 95% of Alder graduates have been hired as full-time teachers following the residency year, and 90% have been rated by school leaders as more effective than other first-year teachers in the same schools. → Yun 2025

Evidence¶

Yun 2025¶

Yun, C., Fitz, J., Nakajima, T., & Mauerman, C. (2025). Educating for equity: Alder Graduate School's teacher residency. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/812.965

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Program-reported employment and principal-rating outcomes across program history (2010–2023 per Table 1, which lists 95% full-time employment, 82% in partner LEAs). The report prints no effect size or statistical test for these descriptive rates.

"Overall, 95% of Alder graduates have been hired as full-time teachers following the residency year, and 90% of Alder graduates have been rated by their school leaders as more effective than other first-year teachers working in the same schools."

Discussion¶

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