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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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Outputs as Educator Effectiveness in the United States: Shifting Towards Political Accountability This manuscript has been peer-reviewed, accepted, and endorsed by the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) as a significant contribution to the scholarship and practice of school administration and K-12 education.
Jody S. Piro,Laurie Mullen +1 more
TL;DR: The definition of educator effectiveness is being redefined by econometric modeling to evidence student achievement on standardized tests as mentioned in this paper. But it is clear that the strength of such models lie in the quantifiable evidence of student learning.
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A profile of the labour market for school principals in South Africa: Evidence to inform policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors profile the labour market for school principals in South Africa, highlighting its overarching characteristics with implications for principal policy reforms and improve the initial match of principals to schools while developing incumbent principals over their length of tenure.
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Examining the relationship between the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment and preservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge
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National Board Certified Physical Educators: perceived changes related to the certification process.
TL;DR: Several themes connected to teachers' views of themselves as NBCPETs surfaced, including an increased emphasis on individualizing teaching and more teaching reflection and a greater focus on student learning and assessment.
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Making the Cut: The Effectiveness of Teacher Screening and Hiring in the Los Angeles Unified School District:
Paul Bruno,Katharine O. Strunk +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used data from a new teacher screening system in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LULU) to study the use of discretion when hiring teachers and how that discretion should be used.
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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.