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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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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 …

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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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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,...

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