Teacher attrition, mobility, and hiring jointly contribute to teacher quality gaps between students of color and other students¶
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q2 i? The simulation attributes TQGs between students of color and other students to the interrelated processes of attrition, mobility, and hiring. → Dan Goldhaber 2023
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Dan Goldhaber 2023¶
Dan Goldhaber, Matt Kasman, Vanessa Quince, Roddy Theobald, Malcolm Wolff. (2023). How Did it Get this Way? Disentangling the Sources of Teacher Quality Gaps through Agent-Based Modeling. Social Science Research, vol. 116. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/social-science-research/vol/116 doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102941
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The article's abstract describes the agent-based modeling study of the Washington State teaching workforce, which decomposes teacher quality gap sources across the three named workforce processes, finding they "contribute to" TQGs between student groups.
"We develop a novel simulation methodology to study the extent to which three interrelated processes—teacher attrition from the state teaching workforce, teacher mobility between teaching positions, and teacher hiring for open positions—contribute to "teacher quality gaps" (TQGs) between students of color and other students in K–12 public schools."
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Related Claims¶
- Eliminating attrition inequities alone does little to close teacher quality gaps — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Eliminating hiring inequities alone would close teacher quality gaps within 10 years — related
- Eliminating inequities in both teacher mobility and hiring would close teacher quality gaps within 5 years in simulations — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Teacher attrition patterns do not contribute to inequitable access to effective teachers — reports the opposite
- Teacher hiring and transfer patterns are consistent with small effectiveness differences, while attrition does not contribute to inequitable access — related
- Teacher hiring and transfer patterns are consistent with small differences in teacher effectiveness by student income — related
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Teacher attrition, mobility, and hiring jointly contribute to teacher quality gaps between students of color and other students |
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Teacher attrition, mobility, and hiring jointly contribute to teacher quality gaps between students of color and other students |
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