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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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The Relationships between Teacher Quality and Sixth Grade Students’ Mathematics Competencies in Kenya and Zimbabwe
TL;DR: Using the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ), the authors examined the distribution of significant teacher quality factors related to sixth-grade students' mathematics competencies across the regions of Kenya and Zimbabwe.
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Comparing Beginning Teachers' Instructional Quality Growth on Subject-Specific and Global Measures.
Laura Neergaard,Thomas M. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared beginning teachers' instructional quality growth on subject-specific and subject-independent learning tasks, and found that the latter showed better performance than the former. But they did not compare the two tasks separately.
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Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures
TL;DR: Malkus et al. as discussed by the authors found that between-school teacher compensation expenditures (TCE) differences are widespread and diversion of targeted compensatory funds to nonwhite, poor and low-performing students.
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Smart edu design as a 21st century learning system innovation in optimizing one of the roles of universities
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Students Are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
TL;DR: The authors further explored the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students, and found that students are almost as effective as senior instructors, and concluded that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will likely negatively affect student outcomes.
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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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