26-district teacher effectiveness dataset covering grades 4-8 over five school years (2008-2009 to 2012-2013)¶
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Description¶
A research dataset assembled and analyzed by Eric Isenberg and colleagues containing teacher effectiveness, student income, hiring, transfer, and attrition information for fourth- through eighth-grade teachers in 26 U.S. school districts across five school years.
Components¶
Claims¶
- Teacher hiring and transfer patterns are consistent with small effectiveness differences, while attrition does not contribute to inequitable access [+M]
- A small subset of study districts shows meaningful inequity in low-income students' access to effective math teachers [+M]
- High- and low-income students have similar chances of being taught by the most effective and the least effective teachers [+M]
- In the average study district, differences in teacher effectiveness between high- and low-income students' teachers are small [+M]
Related Products and Programmes¶
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Key Sources¶
- Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason, Matthew Johnson, Jonah Deutsch, Michael Hansen. (2016). Do Low-Income Students Have Equal Access to Effective Teachers? Evidence from 26 Districts (Executive Summary). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/
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26-district teacher effectiveness dataset covering grades 4-8 over five school years (2008-2009 to 2012-2013) |
description |
A research dataset assembled and analyzed by Eric Isenberg and colleagues containing teacher effectiveness, student income, hiring, transfer, and attrition information for fourth- through eighth-grade teachers in 26 U.S. |
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