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Are Effective Teachers for Students with Disabilities Effective Teachers for All? Working Paper No. 268-0622
- Source :
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National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) . 2022. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- 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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- ED622193
- Document Type :
- Reports - Research