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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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Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate inference using cluster bootstrap-t procedures that provide asymptotic refinement, including the example of Bertrand, Duflo, and Mullainathan.
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Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of features of teachers' preparation on teachers' value-added to student test score performance in math and English Language Arts were investigated. And they found that preparation directly linked to practice appears to benefit teachers in their first year.
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Experimenting With Teacher Professional Development: Motives and Methods
TL;DR: A strong base of research is needed to guide investments in teacher professional development (PD) and articulates a particular direction for future work as mentioned in this paper. But little is known about whether PD can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers.
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The Effect of Teacher Coaching on Instruction and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence:
TL;DR: Teacher coaching has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional models of professional development as discussed by the authors, and the empirical literature on teacher coaching and conduct meta-analyses to estimate the effectiveness of teacher coaching.
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Does student sorting invalidate value-added models of teacher effectiveness? an extended analysis of the rothstein critique
Cory Koedel,Julian R. Betts +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that a sufficiently complex value-added model that evaluates teachers over multiple years reduces the sorting bias problem to statistical insignificance, and that data from the first year or two of classroom teaching for novice teachers may be insufficient to make reliable judgments about quality.
Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools. NBER Working Paper Series.
Joshua D. Angrist,Victor Lavy +1 more
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Some new evidence on teacher and student competencies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report statistical analysis of the determinants of average student performance on standardized examinations, and also the determinant of the extent to which students fail such examinations.
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Did Teachers' Verbal Ability and Race Matter in the 1960s? "Coleman" Revisited.
TL;DR: The authors found that verbal aptitude scores of teachers influenced synthetic grain scores for both black and white students, while holding teacher characteristics other than race constant, in some specifications black teachers were associated with higher gain scores for black high school students, but lower gains for white elementary and secondary students.
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Determinants of Student Achievement: New Evidence from San Diego
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the achievement gap between white students and Hispanic non-EL students by each grade and found that white students outperform non-English learners in reading and math.