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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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Economía aplicada: Ensayos de investigación económica 2017
TL;DR: The presente volumen de la serie Ensayos de Economía Aplicada contiene nueve ensayos, e.g., versiones resumidas and editadas de cinco TIE culminados in junio de 2017 and cuatro culminados en noviembre del mismo año as discussed by the authors.
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France: Promoting economic opportunities and well-being in poor neighbourhoods
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that targeted investment in transport and housing infrastructure as well as education and training could go a long way to improving economic opportunities and well-being in poor areas.
Can Principals Identify Value-Adding Teachers? Can Principals Accurately Identify Effective Teachers as Measured by Value-Added Analysis?
TL;DR: McFarreland et al. as discussed by the authors found that within a reasonable margin of error, principals were able to identify middle school math teachers judged in Ohio to be "value-additive".
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Relationships between Students' Socioeconomic Status, Parental Support, Students' Hindering, Teachers' Hindering and Students' Literacy Scores: PISA 2018.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationships between fifteen-year-old students' PISA 2018 literacy scores and student-level and school-level variables using a relational screening model.
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The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover: Evidence from an Admission Reform
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils.
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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.