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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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Marketing, Information, and Parental Choice: A Comparative Case Study of Third-Party, Federally Funded Out-of-School-Time Services
Molly S. Stewart,Annalee Good +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of information and promotional marketing in market-based educational programs, using the case of Supplemental Educational Services, a parental choice program providing federally funded tutoring to low-income students in K-12 public schools.
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ICT Supported Learning Rises Math Achievement in Low Socio Economic Status Schools
Roberto Araya,Raúl Gormaz,Manuel Bahamondez,Carlos Aguirre,Patricio Calfucura,Paulina Jaure,Camilo Laborda +6 more
TL;DR: The results of 3 years of implementation of an ICT web-based learning environment in all 11 public schools of a low SES urban district in Chile report the results of a Computer Aided Instruction program that promotes whole class collaborative learning with peer support.
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Understand an emerging “failure” of an equality-oriented teacher policy in China: A job search perspective
Wei Liao,Rui Eric 袁睿 Yuan +1 more
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors found that equality-oriented teacher policies are more likely to succeed if they offer generous benefits to participating teachers, tightly tie teachers' obligation to working in high-need schools, and provide necessary administrative arrangements so as to secure faithful implementation.
Title: Screen Twice, Cut Once: Assessing the Predictive Validity of Teacher Selection Tools
TL;DR: Evaluating the ability of applicant selection tools used by the Spokane Public Schools to predict three outcomes: measures of teachers’ value-added contributions to student learning, teacher absence behavior, and attrition rates finds that the screening instruments predict teacher value added in student achievement and teacher attrition but not teacher absences.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
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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.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
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Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement:
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