Goldhaber, Dan; Cowan, James; Walch, Joe - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 216-228
assumptions about how closely teacher effectiveness is aligned across subjects. This paper reports on research exploring these … and reading. We find correlations of value-added estimates of about 0.6 and correlations in the underlying teacher … effectiveness of 0.7–0.8. Assigning teachers to teach particular subjects based on their measured productivity could yield modest …