Megan Toby

The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with successful recruitment and retention of teachers in Oklahoma rural school districts in order to highlight potential strategies to address Oklahoma's teaching shortage. The study was designed to identify teacher-level, district-level, and community characteristics in rural Oklahoma that predict which teachers are most likely to be successfully recruited (as defined in this study as having completed a probationary period of emplo...

uring the past decade, the use of standardized benchmark measures to differentiate and individualize instruction for students received renewed attention from educators. Although teachers may use their own assessments (tests, quizzes, homework, problem sets) for monitoring learning, it is challenging for them to equate performance on classroom measures with likely performance on external measures, such as statewide tests or nationally normed standardized tests. One of the most widely used comm...