Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324599 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Central European Economic Journal (CEEJ) [ISSN:] 2543-6821 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 57 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 371-390
Publisher: 
Sciendo, Warsaw
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Teacher education
Concurrent training
Consecutive training
Self-selection
University
Poland
JEL: 
I21
I23
I28
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Document Type: 
Article

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