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Direct linkDan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Malcolm Wolff – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
While the practice of collecting information from applicants' professional references is widespread, there is a paucity of research linking references' assessments of applicants to subsequent performance. In this paper, we examine the predictive validity of a specific type of reference-provided information: categorical ratings of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Social Networks, Job Applicants
Download full textDan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Turnover in the teacher workforce imposes significant costs to schools, both in terms of student achievement and the time and expense required to recruit and train new staff. This paper examines the potential for structured ratings of teacher applicants, solicited from their professional references, to inform hiring decisions through the selection…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teacher Persistence, Job Applicants, Job Search Methods
Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Malcolm Wolff – Grantee Submission, 2023
While the practice of collecting information from applicants' professional references is widespread, there is a paucity of research linking references' assessments of applicants to subsequent performance. In this paper, we examine the predictive validity of a specific type of reference-provided information: categorical ratings of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Social Networks, Job Applicants
Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – Center for Education Data & Research, 2024
Turnover in the teacher workforce imposes significant costs to schools, both in terms of student achievement and the time and expense required to recruit and train new staff. This paper examines the potential for structured ratings of teacher applicants, solicited from their professional references, to inform hiring decisions through the selection…
Descriptors: Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
