employee evaluation in the presence of imperfect information. First, objective teacher performance estimates based on student …

teacher evaluation systems that would use information from both classroom observations and student test scores to identify …

public education. These schools feature a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior …

teacher impacts on student achievement. We found that students randomly assigned to highly-rated applicants performed better …

-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre … all of the teacher effect estimates we considered were significant predictors of student achievement under random …-experimental data, we found that teacher effects faded out by roughly 50 percent per year in the two years following teacher assignment …

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 …

alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, the certification status of a teacher has at most … persistent differences in teacher effectiveness. This evidence suggests that classroom performance during the first two years …, rather than certification status, is a more reliable indicator of a teacher's future effectiveness. We also evaluate turnover …

, we test whether a teacher's performance on each measure under naturally occurring (i.e., non-experimental) settings … predicts performance following random assignment of that teacher to a class of students. Combining our results with those from … two previous experiments, we provide further evidence that value-added measures are unbiased predictors of teacher …

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 … that teacher value-added estimates were valid predictors of student achievement. We also demonstrate that Rothstein's test …

The Boston Teacher Residency is an innovative practice-based preparation program in which candidates work alongside a … mentor teacher for a year before becoming a teacher of record in Boston Public Schools. We find that BTR graduates are more …