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Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Liddle, Stephanie; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Prior work on teacher candidates in Washington State has shown that about two thirds of individuals who trained to become teachers between 2005 and 2015 and received a teaching credential did not enter the state's public teaching workforce immediately after graduation, while about one third never entered a public teaching job in the state at all.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Insurance, Unemployment, Data
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy; Liddle, Stephanie – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
We use data on over 14,000 teacher candidates in Washington state, merged with employment data from the state's public schools and Unemployment Insurance system, to investigate the career paths and earnings of teacher candidates in the state. Around 75% of candidates are employed in some education position in each of the 5 years after student…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Public School Teachers, Income
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Krieg, John M.; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
We use a novel database of student teaching placements in Washington State to investigate teachers' transitions from student teaching classrooms to first job classrooms and the implications for student achievement. We find first-year teachers are more effective when they teach in the same or an adjacent grade, in the same school type, or in a…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teaching Experience, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
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St. John, Elise; Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
Emerging research finds connections between teacher candidates' student teaching placements and their future career paths and effectiveness. Yet relatively little is known about the factors that influence these placements and how teacher education programs (TEPs) and K-12 school systems match teacher candidates to mentor teachers. In our study of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Teacher Placement
Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy; Choate, Kathryn; Brown, Nate – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
A growing quantitative literature finds evidence that student teaching placements predict later outcomes of teacher candidates and their students, but there is little large-scale quantitative evidence about the mechanisms for these estimated relationships. We use data from a survey of STEM teachers in Washington State to better understand how…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Beginning Teachers, Public School Teachers
Theobald, Roddy; Goldhaber, Dan; Holden, Kristian; Stein, Marcy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
We used survey and administrative data from Washington State to assess the degree to which special education teacher preparation, district literacy instructional practices, and the alignment between preparation and practice were associated with the reading test score gains of students with high-incidence disabilities taught by early-career special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education