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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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Selecting Teachers in Indonesia: Predicting Teacher Performance using Pre-Employment Information
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors study whether teacher candidates' screening tests into PPG or Teacher Professional Education, a postgraduate education program in Indonesia, can predict their performance at the end of the program and in an actual classroom situation at the beginning of their teaching career.
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Knowledge about others’ knowledge: how accurately do teachers estimate their students’ test scores?
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High‐performing Teachers, Student Achievement, and Equity as an Outcome of Educational Supervision
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The Impact of Problem-Based Learning on Non-Science Undergraduate Students' Attitudes towards Mathematics in an Egyptian Classroom
TL;DR: In this article, Covington Clarkson et al. presented a Ph.D. dissertation on education, Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on the role of education, curriculum and instruction.
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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
TL;DR: The authors proposed a variance estimator for the OLS estimator as well as for nonlinear estimators such as logit, probit, and GMM that enables cluster-robust inference when there is two-way or multiway clustering that is nonnested.