id: 06476504
dt: j
an: 2015e.00078
au: Zhou, Yisu
ti: The relationship between school organizational characteristics and reliance
    on out-of-field teachers in mathematics and science: cross-national
    evidence from TALIS 2008.
so: Asia-Pac. Educ. Res. 23, No. 3, 483-497 (2014).
py: 2014
pu: Springer, Singapore
la: EN
cc: B20 B50
ut: international comparison; out-of-field teaching; teacher assignment;
    institutional arrangements
ci: 
li: doi:10.1007/s40299-013-0123-8
ab: Summary: This article investigates the effect of schools’ organizational
    features on teacher staffing decisions at the secondary level
    cross-nationally. I examine the importance of the principal’s
    administrative leadership style and school-level autonomy in making
    staffing decisions to understand variation in assignments of
    out-of-field teachers (OFT) to teach mathematics and science. I conduct
    secondary analysis based on a new international data set compiled by
    the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on
    lower-secondary school administration and teachers in 15 countries. I
    utilize a country fixed-effects model to study the effect of different
    types of organizational characteristics on the extent of reliance on
    out-of-field teaching in mathematics and science cross-nationally. The
    results indicate that the use of OFT is a school-specific issue.
    Several school characteristics affect levels of out-of-field teaching.
    After controlling for country fixed effects, I do not find a systematic
    relationship between the principal’s administrative leadership and
    the school’s reliance on OFT. However, higher school-level autonomy
    in making staffing decisions is significantly associated with lower
    reliance on out-of-field teaching.
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