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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay

Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...

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The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence from Panel Data

Rockoff, Jonah - EconWPA - 2003

Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials … matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers' characteristics … large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises …

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Learner Responsibility in Management Education, or Ventures into Forbidden Research (with Comments)

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

Formal education can be improved by transferring responsibility from the teacher to the learner. A simple approach to this is the time contract. Time contracts have been used successfully in nine quasi-experiments but, despite these successes, some educators see this as subversive research.

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Teacher vs. Learner Responsibility in Management Education

Armstrong, J. S. - EconWPA - 2005

A literature review suggested that behavioral changes occur more rapidly when the learner assumed responsibility. Natural learning, an approach to help learners assume responsibility, was compared with the traditional strategy in seven field experiments. It produced more than twice as many...

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