Faculty & Research Published Research Research (-) Education Facet Area of Focus - Research Benjamin Castleman Daphna Bassok Sarah Turner Christopher J. Ruhm Isaac Mbiti Leora Friedberg Bala Mulloth Benjamin Converse Charles Holt James H. Wyckoff John Pepper (-) Daniel W. Player Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Working Paper Education Measuring the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions at Scale: The Implications of Using Local Practitioners to Conduct Classroom Observations Authors: Daniel W. Player, Daphna Bassok, Bridget K. Hamre, Virginia E. Vitiello, Amanda P. Williford Learn more Published Research Education Are Parents’ Ratings and Satisfaction with Preschools related to Program Features? Authors: Daniel W. Player, Daphna Bassok, Anna J. Markowitz, Michelle Zagardo This study examines whether parents’ overall satisfaction with their child’s early childhood education (ECE) program is correlated with a broad set of program characteristics, including (a) observational assessments of teacher-child interactions; (b) structural features of the program, such as teacher education and class size; (c) practical and convenience factors (e.g., hours, cost); and (d) a measure of average classroom learning gains. It then describes associations between parents’ evaluation of specific program characteristics and externally collected measures of those features. Learn more Published Research Education Identifying and Predicting Effective Leader Practices: Examining Principal Experience and Prior Roles Authors: Daniel W. Player, Dallas Hambrick Hitt The importance of leadership in schools is substantiated, and we know that effective leaders call upon certain practices to influence student achievement. What remains less clear is how the professional backgrounds of educators may influence effective leader practice. Learn more Published Research Education How Principal Leadership and Person-Job Fit Are Associated with Teacher Mobility and Attrition Authors: Daniel W. Player, Peter Youngs, Frank Perrone, Erin Grogan While existing studies of teacher retention have attempted to isolate economic and organizational factors that predict teacher turnover, this paper etends the research base by incorporating measures of principal leadership and person-job (P-J) fit. Using data from roughly 3000 teachers from the 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2012-13 Teacher Follow-up Survey, we explore how leadership and P-J fit are associated with teachers’ mobility. Learn more
Working Paper Education Measuring the Quality of Teacher-Child Interactions at Scale: The Implications of Using Local Practitioners to Conduct Classroom Observations Authors: Daniel W. Player, Daphna Bassok, Bridget K. Hamre, Virginia E. Vitiello, Amanda P. Williford Learn more
Published Research Education Are Parents’ Ratings and Satisfaction with Preschools related to Program Features? Authors: Daniel W. Player, Daphna Bassok, Anna J. Markowitz, Michelle Zagardo This study examines whether parents’ overall satisfaction with their child’s early childhood education (ECE) program is correlated with a broad set of program characteristics, including (a) observational assessments of teacher-child interactions; (b) structural features of the program, such as teacher education and class size; (c) practical and convenience factors (e.g., hours, cost); and (d) a measure of average classroom learning gains. It then describes associations between parents’ evaluation of specific program characteristics and externally collected measures of those features. Learn more
Published Research Education Identifying and Predicting Effective Leader Practices: Examining Principal Experience and Prior Roles Authors: Daniel W. Player, Dallas Hambrick Hitt The importance of leadership in schools is substantiated, and we know that effective leaders call upon certain practices to influence student achievement. What remains less clear is how the professional backgrounds of educators may influence effective leader practice. Learn more
Published Research Education How Principal Leadership and Person-Job Fit Are Associated with Teacher Mobility and Attrition Authors: Daniel W. Player, Peter Youngs, Frank Perrone, Erin Grogan While existing studies of teacher retention have attempted to isolate economic and organizational factors that predict teacher turnover, this paper etends the research base by incorporating measures of principal leadership and person-job (P-J) fit. Using data from roughly 3000 teachers from the 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 2012-13 Teacher Follow-up Survey, we explore how leadership and P-J fit are associated with teachers’ mobility. Learn more