ERIC Number: ED622193
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jun
Pages: 51
Abstractor: As Provided
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Are Effective Teachers for Students with Disabilities Effective Teachers for All? Working Paper No. 268-0622
Wood, W. Jesse; Lai, Ijun; Filosa, Neil R.; Imberman, Scott A.; Jones, Nathan D.; Strunk, Katharine O.
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet, most measures of teacher value-added measures (VAM) fail to distinguish between a teacher's effectiveness in educating students with and without disabilities. We create two VAM measures: one focusing on teachers' effectiveness in improving outcomes for SWDs, and one for non-SWDs. We find top-performing teachers for non-SWDs often have relatively lower VAMs for SWDs, and that SWDs sort to teachers with lower scores in both VAMs. Overall, SWD-specific VAMs may be more suitable for identifying which teachers have a history of effectiveness with SWDs and could play a role in ensuring that students are being optimally assigned to these teachers.
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Persistence, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Characteristics, Correlation
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. American Institutes for Research, 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street NW, Washington, DC 20007. Tel: 202-403-5796; Fax: 202-403-6783; e-mail: info@caldercenter.org; Web site: https://caldercenter.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research
Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles)
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B200009