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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 Long-Run Impacts of Specialized Programming for High-Achieving Students
TL;DR: The authors evaluate long-run academic impacts of specialized programming for high-achieving students by analyzing Advanced Work Class (AWC), an accelerated curriculum delivered in dedicated classrooms for fourth through sixth graders in Boston Public Schools.
The Pedagogical Influences of a Value-Added Model Evaluation System from the Perspectives of Elementary School Teachers in North Georgia: A Phenomenological Study.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of tables, figures, and abbreviations of the situation to self, problem statement, purpose statement, and purpose statement of the study.
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An investigation of the effectiveness of professional learning activities for physics teachers in Saudi Arabia
TL;DR: This thesis addressed the issue of professional learning activities for teachers as an important factor that may affect students’ achievement in physics and suggested that more effective approaches, such as Guskey’s five levels of Continuing Professional Development and Transformative Professional Development (TPD) should be drawn upon to inform training approaches.
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Teachers’ use of motivational strategies: effects of a motivation-oriented professional development course
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of teachers' motivational behaviors on ELT and found that teachers' motivating behaviors have received scant attention in prior research, and therefore, they aimed to investigate the effec...
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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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