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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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High-Quality Professional Development for Teachers: Supporting Teacher Training to Improve Student Learning.
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Does teaching experience increase teacher effectiveness? A review of US research
TL;DR: This article found that teaching experience is positively associated with student achievement gains throughout much of a teacher's career, and as teachers gain experience, their students are more likely to do better on measures of success beyond test scores.
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Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the limits of the prevailing approaches and outlines fresh approaches and specific policy recommendations to address America’s STEM challenge, while there is increasing concern over how to increase STEM graduates, the prevailing approach to solving the STEM challenge have not worked and are not likely to work.
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Mix and Match: What Principals Really Look for When Hiring Teachers
TL;DR: This article conducted an exploratory mixed methods analysis of the teacher characteristics principals prefer and found that principals prefer an "individual mix" of personal and professional qualities, including content knowledge and intelligence.
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The effects of NBPTS-certified teachers on student achievement
Douglas N. Harris,Tim R. Sass +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the efficacy of a relatively new and widely accepted certification system for teachers established by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was investigated. But, they found evidence that NBPTS certification provides a positive signal of a teacher's contribution to student achievement only in a few isolated cases.
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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.