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Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement : An Experimental Evaluation
Kane, Thomas J. - 2008
We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre-experimental period, we used these estimates to predict student...
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National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness : Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment
Cantrell, Steven - 2008
submitted by teachers. We compared the performance of classrooms of elementary students in Los Angeles randomly assigned to … teacher impacts on student achievement. We found that students randomly assigned to highly-rated applicants performed better … than students assigned to comparison teachers, while students assigned to poorly-rated applicants performed worse …
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What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? Evidence from New York City
Kane, Thomas J. - 2006
We use six years of data on student test performance to evaluate the effectiveness of certified, uncertified, and alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most small impacts on student test performance....
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