Project description DEENESFRITPL The ABCs of teacher selection The selection of teachers for employment and candidates for initial teacher education (ITE) is important as it is a key factor of teacher effectiveness. Improving the ways in which prospective teachers are selected benefits children’s educational outcomes and a country’s social and economic health. The EU-funded EduSelect project is exploring various commercial platforms (e.g. spin-out or other start-up company, licensing arrangement etc.) from which to leverage its teacher selection research into widespread international application. The short-term impact of the proposal will be the improvement of the ways in which education organisations (ITE programmes and potential employers) can gather and use data to make decisions about selecting prospective teachers. The long-term impact will be the improvement of the quality of the teacher workforce. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Teacher selection presents a significant international challenge: UNESCO predicts that countries will need to select and train almost 69 million teachers by 2030 (UNESCO 2016). However, current teacher selection methods are largely ineffective (Goldhaber et al., 2014; Klassen & Kim, 2019), resulting in the suboptimal quality of the teacher workforce. Improving the ways in which prospective teachers are selected benefits children’s educational outcomes and a country’s social and economic health (Chetty et al., 2014). Our ERC-funded research (2015-2020) represents the first large-scale project to systematically develop and test a suite of selection tools using models from organisational psychology and medical education. Our results suggest that using innovative tools that are built on sound theory and research (especially using a situational judgment test [SJT] methodology) can reliably and validly assess the difficult-to-measure non-cognitive attributes of prospective teachers in multiple contexts (e.g. Klassen & Kim, 2018; Klassen & Rushby, 2019; Klassen et al., 2017; Durksen & Klassen, 2018). The goal of Edu*Select is to explore various commercial platforms (e.g. spin-out company, other start-up, licensing arrangement) from which to leverage our teacher selection research into widespread international application. The short-term impact of the proposal will be to establish the viability of commercial platforms from which to improve the ways in which education organisations (initial teacher education [ITE] programs and potential employers) can gather and use data to make decisions about selecting prospective teachers. The longer-term impact is the improvement of the quality of the teacher workforce, leading to social and economic benefits through enhanced educational outcomes. The ERC PoC project Edu*Select will lead to the market introduction of the first research-led teacher selection tools for international use. Fields of science social scienceseducational sciencesdidacticssocial sciencespsychologysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2019-POC - ERC Proof of Concept Grant Call for proposal ERC-2019-PoC See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-POC-LS - ERC Proof of Concept Lump Sum Pilot Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF YORK Net EU contribution € 150 000,00 Address Heslington YO10 5DD York north yorkshire United Kingdom See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber North Yorkshire York Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF YORK United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 150 000,00 Address Heslington YO10 5DD York north yorkshire See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber North Yorkshire York Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
