Roddy Theobald

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Roddy Theobald is a scholar working on Education, Information Systems and Management and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Roddy Theobald has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Education, 12 papers in Information Systems and Management and 11 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Roddy Theobald's work include School Choice and Performance (45 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (24 papers) and Parental Involvement in Education (17 papers). Roddy Theobald is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (45 papers), Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (24 papers) and Parental Involvement in Education (17 papers). Roddy Theobald collaborates with scholars based in United States. Roddy Theobald's co-authors include Dan Goldhaber, John M. Krieg, Lesley Lavery, Scott Freeman, James Cowan, K. Hayes, Mary Pat Wenderoth, Alison J. Crowe, Marcy Stein and Sara E. Brownell and has published in prestigious journals such as BioScience, American Educational Research Journal and Educational Researcher.

In The Last Decade

Roddy Theobald

80 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students

2015 208 citations Dan Goldhaber, Lesley Lavery et al. profile →

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Andrew J. Wayne United States

Jennifer King Rice United States

Yvonne Goddard United States

Jennifer York‐Barr United States

Alyson Adams United States

Barnett Berry United States

Stelios Orphanos Cyprus

Ruth Chung Wei Australia

Charlotte Danielson United States

Nikole Richardson United States

Andrew J. Wayne United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roddy Theobald

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roddy Theobald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roddy Theobald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roddy Theobald based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roddy Theobald. Roddy Theobald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Gilmour, Allison F., et al.. (2025). Studying Special Education Teachers in State Longitudinal Data Systems. Teacher Education and Special Education The Journal of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children. 49(1). 28–49.

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Gilmour, Allison F., et al.. (2025). Special Education Personnel Attrition in Pennsylvania. Exceptional Children. 92(2). 122–143. 1 indexed citations

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Theobald, Roddy, et al.. (2025). The Impact of a $10,000 Bonus on Special Education Teacher Shortages in Hawai‘i. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 48(1). 238–267. 5 indexed citations

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Backes, Ben, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, & Roddy Theobald. (2024). Four years of pandemic-era emergency licenses: retention and effectiveness of emergency-licensed Massachusetts teachers over time. Economics of Education Review. 101. 102562–102562. 1 indexed citations

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Backes, Ben, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, & Roddy Theobald. (2024). How to Measure a Teacher. The Journal of Human Resources. 1023–13180R2. 1 indexed citations

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Carruthers, Celeste K., et al.. (2024). Career and Technical Education Alignment Across Five States. AERA Open. 10. 2 indexed citations

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Goldhaber, Dan, et al.. (2023). How did it get this way? Disentangling the sources of teacher quality gaps through agent-based modeling. Social Science Research. 116. 102941–102941. 2 indexed citations

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Slavit, David, et al.. (2023). Faculty perspectives and values toward mathematics and science content information used in teacher preparation admissions processes. School Science and Mathematics. 124(2). 93–110.

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Goldhaber, Dan, et al.. (2022). The role of teachers and schools in explaining STEM outcome gaps. Social Science Research. 105. 102709–102709. 4 indexed citations

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Dougherty, Shaun M., et al.. (2022). Student Interest and Equitable Access to Career and Technical Education High Schools of Choice. Journal of School Choice. 16(4). 588–622. 2 indexed citations

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Cowan, James, et al.. (2020). Teacher Licensure Tests: Barrier or Predictive Tool? Working Paper No. 245-1020.. 2 indexed citations

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Theobald, Roddy, et al.. (2020). The Special Education Teacher Pipeline: Teacher Preparation, Workforce Entry, and Retention. Working Paper No. 231-0220.. 1 indexed citations

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Theobald, Roddy. (2019). From the Clinical Experience to the Classroom: Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance. 3 indexed citations

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Goldhaber, Dan, et al.. (2018). Teacher Quality Gaps and Student Outcomes: Assessing the Association between Teacher Assignments and Student Math Test Scores and High School Course Taking. Working Paper 185.. 1 indexed citations

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Strunk, Katharine O., et al.. (2018). Collective Bargaining and State-Level Reforms: Assessing Changes to the Restrictiveness of Collective Bargaining Agreements across Three States. Working Paper No. 210-1218-1.. 2 indexed citations

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Theobald, Roddy, et al.. (2017). Career and Technical Education, Inclusion, and Postsecondary Outcomes for Students with Disabilities. Working Paper 177.. 2 indexed citations

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Goldhaber, Dan, James Cowan, & Roddy Theobald. (2016). Evaluating Prospective Teachers: Testing the Predictive Validity of the edTPA. Working Paper 157.. 2 indexed citations

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Krieg, John M., Roddy Theobald, & Dan Goldhaber. (2016). A Foot in the Door. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 38(2). 364–388. 62 indexed citations

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Goldhaber, Dan, Lesley Lavery, & Roddy Theobald. (2014). Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Inequity of Teacher Characteristics and Measured Performance across Students. CEDR Working Paper. WP #2014-4.. 4 indexed citations

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Goldhaber, Dan & Roddy Theobald. (2011). Managing the Teacher Workforce: The Consequences of "Last in, First out" Personnel Policies.. Education next. 11(4). 78–83. 1 indexed citations

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