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

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 …

know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. I study the impact of mentoring in New York City, which … teacher and student outcomes and measures of mentoring quality, such as hours of mentoring received and the characteristics of … regarding the impact of mentors on their success in the classroom, but weaker evidence of effects on teacher absences, retention …

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 …

to subsequent teacher performance. We study the relationship among applicant characteristics, hiring outcomes, and … teacher performance in the Washington DC Public Schools (DCPS). We take advantage of detailed data on a multi … teacher effectiveness. Interestingly, we find that these measures are only weakly, if at all, associated with the likelihood …

likely to have children as teenagers. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase …

from 4 to 8. On average, a one standard deviation improvement in teacher VA in a single grade raises earnings by about 1 …% at age 28. Replacing a teacher whose VA is in the bottom 5% with an average teacher would increase the present value of …