Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Atsushi Inoue, Ryuichi Tanaka
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences corresponding to their subfields of college majors. Teaching practices explain about half of the effect of teachers' major fields. Most of the effects of teaching practices are accounted for by teachers' preparation for teaching science topics. The results are robust to potential endogenous matching between students and teachers.
Year of publication: |
February 2022
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Authors: | Inoue, Atsushi ; Tanaka, Ryūichi |
Publisher: |
Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics |
Subject: | education | teacher | natural science | college major | middle school | TIMSS | Lehrkräfte | Teaching profession | Studierende | Students | Bildungsverhalten | Educational behaviour | Hochschule | Higher education institution | Berufswahl | Occupational choice | Bildungsertrag | Returns to education | Schüler | Pupils | Studium | University education | Qualifikation | Occupational qualification | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 31 Seiten) |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 15101 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/252225 [Handle] |
Classification: | H75 - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare ; I21 - Analysis of Education ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163502