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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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Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation
Cory Koedel,Julian R. Betts +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the sensitivity of value-added to a particularly relevant testing-instrument property test-score-ceiling effects is examined, and it is shown that teachers' value added estimates are only negligibly influenced by ceiling effects, as ceiling conditions approach those found in minimum-competency testing environments.
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Chapter 4: Considerations of Content and the Circumstances of Secondary School Teaching:
Pam Grossman,Susan S. Stodolsky +1 more
TL;DR: The landscape of teaching, learning, and teacher education is changing as mentioned in this paper, and the need for various forms of collaboration has increased, whether the purpose of such collaboration is to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities, to plan interdisciplinary curriculum, or to support teachers in improving practice.
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Practical estimation methods for linked employer-employee data
TL;DR: The analyse von zusammengefugten Personen and Firmendaten is bisher nicht in die Statistiksprogramme integriert worden as mentioned in this paper.
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Hire Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Determinants of Attrition among Public School Teachers
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the determinants of teacher attrition using matched teacher-student class-level information for all Florida public school teachers and found that classroom characteristics, such as students' performance on standardized tests and the average number of disciplinary incidents, play a larger role than school average student characteristics in determining teacher attrition.