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- Title
Equality of educational opportunity at racially isolated schools: Balancing the need for teacher certification with teacher shortage.
- Authors
Bruno, James; Marcoulides, George
- Abstract
Providing for equality of educational opportunity at racially isolated schools continues to be an important area of concern for educational policy makers. Quality teachers to staff instruction programs at these schools is essential to promoting equal opportunity for minority groups. Unfortunately, these schools continue to suffer chronic teacher shortages. Recently, California implemented a teacher certification examination (CBEST) designed specifically to improve the quality of teachers entering the profession. An unintended consequence of the certification movement was the exacerbation of the teacher shortage problem at racially isolated schools. The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics of teachers who passed and failed the CBEST. The study finds that failure rates are highest among minority teachers that are presently employed. The study also finds that the mathematics knowledge subscale scores best discriminate those passing from those failing the CBEST. An analytical approach for determining 'optimal' cutoff scores on the CBEST which balances the need for certification with the problem of teacher shortage is proposed.
- Publication
Urban Review, 1985, Vol 17, Issue 3, p155
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF01142463