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Download full textDan 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
Direct linkDan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – Center for Education Data & Research, 2024
Professional references are widely used in hiring decisions, yet their effectiveness remains largely understudied. We analyze 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. We find…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Job Applicants, Productivity, Reputation
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
Dan 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
Peer reviewedDan 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
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Wolff, Malcolm – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Most research about how to improve the teacher workforce has focused on interventions designed to improve incumbent teachers, far less attention has been directed toward teacher hiring processes and whether districts can make better hiring decisions. Using data from Spokane Public Schools and Washington state, we describe the findings from a study…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment, Teacher Recruitment, Job Applicants, Social Networks
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Wolff, Malcolm; Martinková, Patrícia – Grantee Submission, 2021
There is growing interest in using measures of teacher applicant quality to improve hiring decisions, but the statistical properties of such measures are not well understood. We use unique data on structured ratings solicited from the references of teacher applicants to explore the dimensionality of measures of teacher applicant quality and the…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Job Applicants, Teacher Qualifications, Letters (Correspondence)
Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Michael DeArmond – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2025
When education leaders and others discuss staffing challenges in K-12 schools, they often focus on teacher shortages. In response, policymakers across the country have launched a range of initiatives to increase the supply of teachers. These kinds of initiatives may help attract more people to teaching. But they address only part of the problem.…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Job Applicants
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Wolf, Malcom; Martinkova, Patricia – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
There is growing interest in using measures of teacher applicant quality to improve hiring decisions, but the statistical properties of such measures are poorly understood. We present evidence on structured ratings solicited from teacher applicants' references. We find that the reference ratings capture only one underlying dimension of applicant…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Teacher Selection, Interrater Reliability, Decision Making
