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“Staffing to the Test”: Are Today’s School Personnel Practices Evidence Based?

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Title
“Staffing to the Test”: Are Today’s School Personnel Practices Evidence Based?
Abstract/Description
Faced with mounting policy pressures from federal and state accountability programs, school leaders are reallocating curricula, time, even diet in an attempt to boost student achievement. To explore whether they are using test score data to reallocate their teacher resources as well, I designed a cross-case, cross-sectional study and explored principals? reported staffing practices in one higher performing and one lower performing elementary school in each of five Florida school districts. Findings show that school leaders are ?staffing to the test? by hiring, moving, and developing teachers in an effort to increase their schools? overall performance. The paper discusses the implications of evidence-based staffing for policy, practice and future research.
Author/creator
Cohen-Vogel, Lora
Date
2011
In publication
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
483-505
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Keywords
accountability
teacher quality
data use
personnel practices
IRE Approach/Concept
Data Use
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0162-3737
DOI
10.3102/0162373711419845
URL
Publisher Webpage
Citation
Cohen-Vogel, L. (2011). “Staffing to the Test”: Are Today’s School Personnel Practices Evidence Based? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 33(4), 483–505. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373711419845
Abbreviation
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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