Towards a better understanding of self-selection to teacher training programmes: A case study of a renowned public university in Poland

• Authors: Mikołaj Herbst , Tomasz Zając

Abstracts

EN

It is difficult to achieve high-quality education without good teachers. Therefore, it is crucial to understand who decides to become a teacher. This study leverages a large-scale administrative dataset comprising detailed records of the educational trajectories of 10 cohorts of students at the University of Warsaw, the largest higher education institution in Poland, in order to investigate self-selection to the teaching profession and to learn whether it depends on the mode of teacher training and the student’s primary field of studies. We find that the recruitment of students to the concurrent teacher training programme is characterised by adverse self-selection with respect to prior academic achievements. When it comes to consecutive programmes, pursued as an extension or specialisation within the major programme, the willingness of students to enroll in teacher training is related to their secondary school achievements, but also – and in a distinct way – to their early experience at the university. In the case of STEM and foreign language programmes, we observe adverse selection to teacher training with respect to either the student’s pre-university academic outcomes or their achievements during the first year of university studies

Keywords

EN

Teacher education; Concurrent training; Consecutive training; Self-selection; University; Poland

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania
• Journal: Central European Economic Journal
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 57
• Pages: 371-390

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Mikołaj Herbst

• University of Warsaw

author

Tomasz Zając

• The University of Queensland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ceej-2023-0021

Biblioteka Nauki

22443119