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Improving Hiring Decisions: Experimental Evidence on the Value of Reference Information about Teacher Applicants. Working Paper No. 306-0824
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Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Professional references are widely used in hiring decisions, yet their effectiveness remains largely understudied. This study analyzes structured ratings collected from the professional references of teacher applicants and conduct an experiment to see whether the ratings influence hiring managers' assessments of applicants and hiring decisions.…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Job Applicants, Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment