This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher … relative weight that school administrators place on a variety of teacher characteristics. I find evidence that principals do … consider teacher absences and value-added measures, along with several demographic characteristics, in determining which …

Research on the relationship between teachers' characteristics and teacher effectiveness has been underway for over a … century, yet little progress has been made in linking teacher quality with factors observable at the time of hire. However … commercially available teacher selection instrument. Individually, we find that only a few of these predictors have statistically …

initially motivate this strategy in the context of teacher quality, but then generalize the model to consider educational … interventions more generally. Using administrative data that links students and teachers, we construct measures of teacher … effectiveness and then estimate the persistence of these teacher value-added measures on student test scores. We find that teacher …

the number of parent requests for individual elementary school teachers along with information on teacher attributes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … a teacher's ability to raise standardized math or reading achievement. These aggregate effects, however, mask striking …

In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher … compensation ¡V education and experience ¡V and another potential compensation mechanism -- value-added measures of teacher … achievement significantly better than teacher experience, education or actual compensation, though not as well as value …

This paper reports on the results of a prospective implementation of methods for detecting teacher cheating. In Spring …

We develop an algorithm for detecting teacher cheating that combines information on unexpected test score fluctuations … that serious cases of teacher or administrator cheating on standardized tests occur in a minimum of 4-5 percent of …

While there is a substantial literature on the relationship between general teacher characteristics and student … learning, school districts and states often rely on in-service teacher training as a part of school reform efforts. Recent … design. In this paper, we use a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate the effect of teacher training on the math and …

Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market … equilibrium outcome. To isolate the importance of teacher labor supply, we attended three large teacher job fairs in Chicago …