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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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Nationally Certified Educational Diagnostician: A Credential With Value-Added Potential
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether professional practices of educational diagnosticians holding national certification differed significantly from those without national certification, and found that NCED holders had significantly higher mean self-ratings than their non-NCED counterparts in the areas of leadership/policy and coll...
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Escolarización temprana, trimestre de nacimiento y rendimiento educativo en primaria Early schooling, quarter of birth and academic achievement in Primary Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of early childhood education and the quarter of birth on the competences of students in fourth grade was analyzed using the General Diagnostic Assessment (GDA) held in Spain in 2009.
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A Multimedia Professional Development Process for Teacher Education and Professional Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a multimedia professional development process that can be used to support teacher candidates or inservice teachers' needs using modeling videos and data-driven coaching.
The Aftermath of Detroit's Economic Decline and the Exodus of Urban Teachers: A Phenomenology
TL;DR: In this paper, a phenomenological study was conducted to understand the decision-making process of teachers who left the urban setting in metropolitan Detroit, and found that three primary reasons for teachers' decisions to leave the urban education setting within metropolitan Detroit were professional, cultural and political.
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Lost in translation? teacher training and outcomes in high school economics classes
TL;DR: The authors used data from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes to assess the effects of teacher characteristics on student achievement, finding that teachers' specialized teacher experience and college-level coursework in economics is associated with higher scores on the multiple choice test and lower scores on essay lest, suggesting that a portion of teachers' content knowledge may be "lost in translation" when conveyed to their students.
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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
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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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