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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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Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment
Thomas S. Dee,Thomas S. Dee +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that a one-year assignment to an own-race teacher significantly increased the reading and math achievement of both black and white students by roughly three to four percentile points, and that the racial pairings of students and teachers in this experiment were independently given.
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Evaluating the Evidence on Teacher Certification: A Rejoinder
Dan Goldhaber,Dominic J. Brewer +1 more
TL;DR: In "Do Teacher Certification Matter? Evaluating the Evidence " as discussed by the authors, Linda Darling-Hammond, Barnett Berry, and Amy Thoreson discuss the importance of teacher certification.
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Toward Policy-Relevant Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Sizes: Combining Effects with Costs.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the benchmarks used to interpret the size of these effects, as small, medium, and large, to evaluate the effect sizes of the effects of education research.