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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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Rookie Mistakes: The Interplay of Teacher Experience and Racial Representation.
Katie Vinopal,Stephen B. Holt +1 more
TL;DR: A growing body of research has documented the important benefits teachers of color bring to students of color, including higher expectations as mentioned in this paper, and researchers have shown that teachers improvise and adapt to students' needs.
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Debunking the myth of the teacher performance plateau
Bryan Goodwin,William J. Slotnik +1 more
TL;DR: There is a long-held but inaccurate belief that new teachers’ expertise and talent is mostly innate and that it peaks and plateaus within their first few years of teaching William Slotnik and Brya as discussed by the authors.
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Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment
TL;DR: In this article, a six-week intervention that prompts dispatchers to share advice anonymously and asynchronously with their peers in other cities reduces burnout by 8 points (0.4 SD) and cuts resignations by more than half (3.6 percentage points) four months after the intervention ended.
The possibilities of using distance learning in the professional training of a future foreign language teacher
Tetiana Konovalenko,Yurii V. Yivzhenko,Natalia B. Demianenko,Ihor M. Romanyshyn,Yevgeniya S. Yemelyanova +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors' experience in participation in two distance courses: the course "Initial Moodle user course" in Ukrainian language and British course "Learning skills and systems".
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Hierarchical social network analysis using multi-agent systems: A school system case
TL;DR: The policy evaluation model is able to evaluate funding policies from the past three years in Bexar County and concludes that increasing funding does not necessarily have a positive impact on student performance and it is generally not the case that the more is spent, the better.
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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.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
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