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Meghan M. Burke; Zach Rossetti; Janeth Aleman Tovar; Kristina Rios; James D. Lee; Kristen Schraml-Block; Javier I. Rivera – Online Submission, 2021
Due to systemic barriers, Spanish-speaking (versus English-speaking) parents of children with disabilities are less likely to participate in educational decision-making. However, little research has directly compared special education experiences between both populations. The purpose of this study was to explore the differences and similarities…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Barriers, Students with Disabilities
Presley, Jennifer B.; White, Bradford R.; Gong, Yuqin – Online Submission, 2005
In a previous Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) policy research report, The Distribution of Teacher Quality in Illinois (IERC 2005-1), we introduced the Illinois Teacher Quality Index (TQI). The TQI is a school-level indicator of teacher quality that describes a school's concentration of certain teacher attributes that research suggests…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Screening Tests, Teacher Qualifications
DeAngelis, Karen J.; Presley, Jennifer B.; White, Bradford R. – Online Submission, 2005
This study looks at the distribution of all 140,000 teachers in 2002-2003 among Illinois' public schools using five teacher attributes that have been shown in previous research to be related to student performance and for which they were able to obtain data--college competitiveness, years of experience, type of credential, performance on the Basic…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Academic Achievement, Teacher Competencies