Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students
Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students
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DOI：
10.3102/0013189x15592622
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发表时间：
2015-06-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Theobald, Roddy
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作者：
Goldhaber, Dan;Lavery, Lesley;Theobald, Roddy
政策制定者旨在缩小有据可查的贫困学生和处境不利学生之间的成绩差距，他们越来越多地将注意力转向教师质量问题。一些研究表明，教师在学生群体中的分布不公平，这是根据投入衡量标准（如经验和资格）以及产出衡量标准（如教师绩效的增值估计）进行的，但这些往往侧重于教师质量的个别衡量标准或特定学区。在这项研究中，我们提出了一个全面的，描述性的分析，教师质量的投入和产出措施的不公平分布在华盛顿州所有学区的学生劣势的各种指标。我们证明，在小学，初中和高中的课堂上，几乎每一个教师质量的措施，我们examineexperience，许可证考试成绩，和价值addedis不公平地分布在学生discriminatefree-reduced价格午餐状态，代表性不足的少数民族，和低以前的学习成绩的每一个指标。最后，我们将这些不平等分解到地区、学校和课堂层面，发现这三个层面的教师分类模式有助于整体教师质量差距。
Policymakers aiming to close the well-documented achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students have increasingly turned their attention to issues of teacher quality. A number of studies have demonstrated that teachers are inequitably distributed across student subgroups by input measures, like experience and qualifications, as well as output measures, like value-added estimates of teacher performance, but these tend to focus on either individual measures of teacher quality or particular school districts. In this study, we present a comprehensive, descriptive analysis of the inequitable distribution of both input and output measures of teacher quality across various indicators of student disadvantage across all school districts in Washington State. We demonstrate that in elementary school, middle school, and high school classrooms, virtually every measure of teacher quality we examineexperience, licensure exam scores, and value addedis inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantagefree/reduced-price lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance. Finally, we decompose these inequities to the district, school, and classroom levels and find that patterns in teacher sorting at all three levels contribute to the overall teacher quality gaps.