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The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring : Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools
Boyd, Donald - 2010
are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these reforms have the potential to benefit schools and students … (certification exam scores; college competitiveness) are more likely to apply for transfer, while teachers whose students demonstrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462686
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Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other : The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2009
Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463447
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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
Boyd, Donald - 2008
teachers resulted in average improved achievement for students in the poorest decile of schools of .03 standard deviations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464597
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Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement
Boyd, Donald - 2008
, while less effective transfers stay in lower-performing schools, likely exacerbating the differences across students in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464625
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Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility : Direct Evidence From Teachers
Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2010
I investigate the importance of the match between teachers and schools for student achievement. I show that teacher effectiveness increases after a move to a different school, and I estimate teacher-school match effects using a mixed-effects estimator. Match quality "explains away" a quarter of,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462663