Leah Natasha Glassow

Dr. Leah Natasha Glassow is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg. She specializes in education policy and teacher qualifications, with a focus on socioeconomic inequity in educational systems.

Her research examines the relationships between classroom socioeconomic composition and teacher qualifications, mathematics achievement gaps, and the global trends in teacher turnover and performance appraisal systems. She utilizes data from international assessments like TIMSS and TALIS to analyze cross-national educational patterns, particularly in Nordic and comparable systems.

Recent publications analyze two decades of TIMSS data to evaluate teacher distribution trends, employ alignment optimization methods for cross-system comparability, and investigate policy impacts on educational equity. Her work contributes to understanding how structural factors affect teaching quality and student outcomes.