Effect of Schools’ Failure to Make Adequate Yearly Progress on Teacher Turnover

• In Event: Advanced Studies of National and State Databases: Applications and Methodological Considerations

Abstract

Drawing data from the 2007-08 SASS and its TFS, this is one of the first few studies that use a nationally representative sample to examine the impact of schools’ failure to make AYP on teacher turnover in the following year. It uses propensity score matching to identify a control group of schools that had similar propensities to fail AYP given school demographics, geographical locations, and other contextual factors, but actually made AYP at the end of 2006-07 school year. The estimation models on this matched sample indicate that teachers in failed-AYP schools had an average higher likelihood of moving to other schools, while schools’ AYP status did not differentially influence the probability of leaving the teaching profession.

Author

• Min Sun, University of Washington - Seattle