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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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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards

Angrist, Joshua - 2010

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

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Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignments in Los Angeles

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2014

In a widely cited study, Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a; hereafter CFR) evaluate the degree of bias in teacher value-added estimates using a novel "teacher switching" research design with data from New York City. They conclude that there is little to no bias in their estimates. Using the same...

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Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2012

the variance in knowledge does indeed rise as children progress through school, but not enough for test score …

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How Large are the Social Returns to Education? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

Acemoglu, Daron - 1999

Average schooling in US states is highly correlated with state wage levels, even after controlling for the direct effect of schooling on individual wages. We use an instrumental variables strategy to determine whether this relationship is driven by social returns to education. The instrumentals...

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School District Reform in Newark : Within- and Between-School Changes in Achievement Growth

Chin, Mark J. - 2017

Priscilla Chan. Using data from 2009 through 2016, we evaluate the change in Newark students' achievement growth relative to … similar students and schools elsewhere in New Jersey. We measure achievement growth using a "value-added" model, controlling …

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Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools : Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2009

schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools …

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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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Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink : An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement

Angrist, Joshua - 2006

year grades. A third treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for students …

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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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