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Preparation: Data
The TQ Source interactive data tool allows you to extract valuable, customized information related to teacher preparation across schools, districts, states, and regions.
After you have selected a question below, you will be prompted to choose from several variables regarding teacher preparation. Your selections will generate a customized graph that reflects your desired information.
| 1. | What is the demographic make-up of teachers? |
| This question allows you to examine teachers by race/ethnicity and gender. |
| 2. | What is the highest degree attained by teachers? |
| This question allows you to examine the levels of degrees earned by teachers. |
| 3. | How much time did new teachers spend in the classroom prior to full-time teaching?* |
| This question allows you to see how much time teachers spent student-teaching prior to their first teaching position. |
| 4. | In their first year, were teachers prepared to handle a variety of classroom situations?* |
| This question addresses the issues of classroom discipline and management. |
| 5. | In their first year, were teachers prepared to adjust their instruction and materials to meet the needs of the classroom?* |
| This question addresses the ability of the teachers to adjust themselves to their students, as needed. |
| 6. | In their first year, were teachers prepared to assess their students effectively?* |
| This question allows you to determine how well prepared teachers were to assess students. |
| 7. | What percentage of first-year teachers participated in a formal induction program?* |
| This question allows you to determine many teachers participated in a formal induction program. |
TQ Source data is based on the 1999–2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.
Nearly 45,000 U.S. public school teachers completed the SASS teacher survey for the 1999-2000 school year. SASS uses a complex stratified sampling design to report accurately for the nation and for each state at an affordable cost. But, SASS is not a census; it does not count every teacher. Hence, the numbers and percentages it reports are estimates of what a census survey would tell us. The TQSource data section allows the exploration of these rich data, nationally, by region, and for each state.
* These questions only examine those teachers who began teaching in the 1995–1996 school year. This is how the SASS defined "new" teachers