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The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data
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This paper found large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises reading and math test scores by approximately.20 and.24 standard deviations, respectively, on a nationally standardized scale.Abstract:
Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers' characteristics-both observable and unobservable-it is essential to identify teacher fixed effects. Unlike previous studies, I use panel data to estimate teacher fixed effects while controlling for fixed student characteristics and classroom specific variables. I find large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises reading and math test scores by approximately .20 and .24 standard deviations, respectively, on a nationally standardized scale. In addition, teaching experience has statistically significant positive effects on reading test scores, controlling for fixed teacher quality.read more
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Different Tests, Different Answers: The Stability of Teacher Value-Added Estimates Across Outcome Measures
TL;DR: The authors examined whether value-added estimates from three separate reading achievement tests provide similar answers about teacher performance and found moderate-sized rank correlations, ranging from 0.15 to 0.58, between the estimates derived from different tests.
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Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina
Charles T. Clotfelter,Charles T. Clotfelter,Elizabeth Glennie,Helen F. Ladd,Jacob L. Vigdor,Jacob L. Vigdor +5 more
TL;DR: For a three-year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual bonus of $1800 to certified math, science and special education teachers working in public secondary schools with either high-poverty rates or low test scores.
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Making a difference? The effects of Teach For America in high school
TL;DR: This article found that TFA teachers tend to have a positive effect on high school student test scores relative to non-TFA teachers, including those who are certified in field, and that these effects offset or exceed the impact of additional years of experience and are particularly strong in science.
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Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence From New York City †
Will Dobbie,Roland G. Fryer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data on the inner-workings of 39 charter schools and correlated these data with school effectiveness, finding that traditionally collected input measures, such as class size, per-pupil expenditure, teacher certification, and teacher training, are not correlated with school performance.
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Teacher Effects on Social and Behavioral Skills in Early Elementary School.
TL;DR: Although many recognize that social and behavioral skills play an important role in educational stratification, no studies have attempted to estimate teachers' effects on these outcomes as mentioned in this paper, which is a limitation of our work.
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Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem
TL;DR: The authors examined the reflection problem that arises when a researcher observing the distribution of behaviour in a population tries to infer whether the average behaviour in some group influences the behaviour of the individuals that comprise the group.
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Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies
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The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
TL;DR: This paper analyzed data on 11,600 students and their teachers who were randomly assigned to different size classes from kindergarten through third grade and found that performance on standardized tests increases by 4 percentile points the first year students attend small classes; the test score advantage of students in small classes expands by about one percentile point per year in subsequent years.