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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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Distributed leadership, professional collaboration, and teachers’ job satisfaction in U.S. schools
TL;DR: This paper used hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to investigate relationships among distributed leadership, professional collaboration, and teachers' job satisfaction in U.S. schools, and found that teachers perceived of distributed leadership positively associated with their job satisfaction after accounting for other individual and school culture variables.
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Do more effective teachers earn more outside the classroom
TL;DR: This paper examined earnings records for more than 130,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-2 and 2006-7 school years, roughly 35,000 of whom left the classroom during that time.
What Makes for a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell? Working Paper 30.
Douglas N. Harris,Tim R. Sass +1 more
TL;DR: Rutledge et al. as mentioned in this paper found a positive and significant correlation between teacher value-added and principals' subjective ratings and that principals' evaluations are generally, though not always, better predictors of a teacher value added than traditional approaches to teacher compensation that focus on experience and formal education.
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What makes special-education teachers special? Teacher training and achievement of students with disabilities
Li Feng,Tim R. Sass +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of both pre-service and in-service training on the ability of teachers to promote academic achievement among students with disabilities using data from Florida.
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Is a Good Teacher a Good Teacher for All? Comparing Value-Added of Teachers With Their English Learners and Non-English Learners
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use value-added models with increasing frequency to evaluate educational policies and programs, as well as teachers and other educators individually, in order to evaluate the performance of individual educators individually.
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