A nationally representative survey of teachers conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. The data was used by Richard M. Ingersoll to analyze the relationship between school organization, administration, and the assignment of teachers to subjects outside their field of training.
Use Cases
- Modeling the relationship between school district hiring regulations and out-of-field teaching rates.
- Analyzing the association between principal leadership quality and teacher assignment practices.
- Investigating how school strategies for teacher recruitment correlate with out-of-field teaching.
- Examining the link between average school class sizes and the prevalence of out-of-field teaching.
Strengths
- Data is from a large, nationally representative survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.
- Analysis controls for multiple factors to identify independent associations with out-of-field teaching.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- National Center for Education Statistics (Schools and Staffing Survey)
- Collection Method
- Survey data collection.
- Time Range
- unknown
- Freshness
- unknown
- Geography
- United States (nationally representative)