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Teacher training, teacher quality and student achievement
Douglas N. Harris,Tim R. Sass +1 more
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In this article, the effects of various types of education and training on the productivity of teachers in promoting student achievement were studied. But they did not find a consistent relationship between formal professional development training and teacher productivity, and they found no evidence that teachers' pre-service training or college entrance exam scores are related to productivity.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 1263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Professional development.read more
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Effects of teacher professional learning activities on student achievement growth
Motoko Akiba,Guodong Liang +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of six types of teacher professional learning activities on student achievement growth over four years using statewide longitudinal survey data collected from 467 middle school mathematics teachers in 91 schools merged with 11,192 students' mathematics scores in a standardized assessment in Missouri.
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Does Teacher Evaluation Improve School Performance? Experimental Evidence from Chicago's Excellence in Teaching Project.
TL;DR: The Excellence in Teaching Project (EITP) as discussed by the authors is a teacher evaluation program designed to increase student learning by improving classroom instruction through structured principal-teacher dialogue, which was implemented in forty-four elementary schools and scaled up to include an additional forty-eight elementary schools in 2009-10 (cohort 2).
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Supporting Literacy Across the Sunshine State: A Study of Florida Middle School Reading Coaches
Julie A. Marsh,Jennifer Sloan McCombs,J. R. Lockwood,Francisco Martorell,Daniel Gershwin,Scott Naftel,Vi-Nhuan Le,Molly Shea,Heather Barney,Al Crego +9 more
TL;DR: This article evaluated the impact of reading coaches on teaching practices and student outcomes in Florida middle schools and found that many students are not moving beyond basic decoding to fluency and comprehension as they go on to higher grades.
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How Principals “Bridge and Buffer” the New Demands of Teacher Quality and Accountability: A Mixed‐Methods Analysis of Teacher Hiring
TL;DR: The authors examined the degree to which district and building level administrators accommodate teacher quality and test-based accountability policies in their hiring practices, and found that administrators negotiated local hiring goals with characteristics emphasized by federal and state teacher quality policies, such as knowledge of the subject and teaching skills.
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Would Accountability Based on Teacher Value Added Be Smart Policy? An Examination of the Statistical Properties and Policy Alternatives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the statistical validity, purposes, and costs of teacher value-added policies and argue that using teacher value added measures is likely to increase student achievement more efficiently than a teacher credentials-only strategy but may not be the most cost-effective policy overall.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,John F. Kain,Steven G. Rivkin,Steven G. Rivkin +5 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
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The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out that public and professional interest in education is likely to be short-lived, doomed to dissipate as frustration over the inability of policy to improve school practice sets in.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors disentangle the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of student and school selection.
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Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement:
TL;DR: It is found that teachers’ mathematical knowledge was significantly related to student achievement gains in both first and third grades after controlling for key student- and teacher-level covariates.
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Robust Inference with Multi-way Clustering
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