Methodology: Teacher production
There is no rating associated with this standard, merely the development of some proportions for comparison. We calculated the proportion of the state's special education teachers produced by a given institution as well as the proportion of the state's teachers produced by the institution in the combination of all other preparation programs offered.1
1For all calculations we relied on production numbers available from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) because self-reports
on production from the 53 education schools in the study were too incomplete for analysis. These reports provide the number of
"special teaching" certificates, which cannot be defined by the ISBE staff but which we presume to pertain to or include the LBS 1
certified teachers whose preparation we evaluated.
