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Interactive Data Tools

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality provides interactive data tools for users to generate customized data tables about teacher preparation and teacher recruitment and retention. Customized data tables are based on data from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Common Core of Data (CCD).


Teacher Preparation Data Tool

Teacher Recruitment and Retention Data Tool

The data that make up these tools are derived from the 2003–2004 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). For the data tool on recruitment and retention, the data are also based on the Common Core of Data (CCD) conducted by NCES.

The Value of Reliable Data (Adobe PDF Icon Adobe® Reader® PDF 658 KB).
This brief outlines how to use the Interactive Data Tools from the TQ Center. These tools enable users to extract valuable customized information on teacher preparation and present several illustrations that reflect real questions and answers that the TQ Center has received from its constituents.

The most recent addition to the TQ Source, the Annotated Public Opinion Research on Teachers and Teacher Quality, is a comprehensive annotated list of the existing public opinion research on teacher quality.

 

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