Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs. CEDR Working Paper No. 2011-1.3

Autor/inn/en	Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy
Institution	Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR)
Titel	Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs. CEDR Working Paper No. 2011-1.3
Quelle	(2011), (50 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Teaching (Occupation); Economic Climate; Structural Unemployment; Job Layoff; School Administration; Personnel Management; Employment Practices; Probability; Predictor Variables; Teacher Effectiveness; Status; Experienced Teachers; Science Teachers; Special Education Teachers; Mathematics Teachers; Educational Needs; Elementary Secondary Education; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching; Lehrberuf; Wirtschaftslage; Beurlaubung; Personalmanagement; Berufspraxis; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Prädiktor; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Special education; Sonderpädagoge; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Mathematics; Mathematik; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf
Abstract	Over 2,000 teachers in the state of Washington received reduction-in-force (RIF) notices across the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years. We link data on these RIF notices to an administrative dataset that includes student, teacher, school, and district variables to determine the factors that predict the likelihood of a teacher receiving a RIF notice. Not surprisingly, we find that a teacher's seniority is the strongest predictor, but we also find (all else equal) that teachers with master's degrees and those credentialed in the high-need areas of math, science, and special education were less likely to receive a RIF notice. Value-added measures of teacher effectiveness, which can be calculated for a subset of the teachers, were not correlated with the probability of receiving a RIF notice. Finally, simulations suggest that a very different group of teachers would be targeted for layoffs under an effectiveness-based layoff scenario than under the seniority-driven system that exists today. (Contains 3 figures, 7 tables, and 65 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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