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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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Is ATAR useful for predicting the success of Australian Students in initial teacher education
TL;DR: The authors investigated the validity of the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) as a predictor of academic success and performance on school placement and found that it was positively related to academic success for students in the three Bachelor of Education Primary cohorts but was weakly related for the three Early Childhood/Primary cohorts.
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Towards an optimal teacher salary schedule: Designing base salary to attract and retain effective teachers
TL;DR: This paper showed that a 1% increase in base salary for teachers of a particular experience level increases the proportion of the targeted teachers hired by 0.04-0.08 percentage points.
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Defining and preparing high-quality teachers in special education: What do we know from the research?
TL;DR: The authors provide a summary of the research on characteristics of highly qualified teachers and what we know from the research in teacher education and professional development that might foster these qualities, both in general and in special education.
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Pension-Induced Rigidities in the Labor Market for School Leaders
TL;DR: This article examined how the mobility penalties of defined-benefit pension plans affect the labor market for school leaders and found that they greatly affect leadership flows across schools and that removing the border will increase leadership mobility between them by 97 to 163 percent.
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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.