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Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
Borjas, George J. - 2000
complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …
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Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?
Kedagni, Desire - 2019
Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...
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Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Figlio, David N. - 2005
This paper investigates the question of whether teachers treat children differentially on the basis of factors other than observed ability, and whether this differential treatment in turn translates into differences in student outcomes. I suggest that teachers may use a child's name as a signal...
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Dynamic Effects of Teacher Turnover on the Quality of Instruction
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects. The evidence at first seems contradictory, as the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456205
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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …
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Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?
Figlio, David N. - 2013
This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student's first term at...
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Inclusive Teaching : Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom
Alan, Sule - 2024
We evaluate an intervention designed to increase teachers' awareness of social isolation by providing them with their own students' social network and information on developmental risks associated with social exclusion. Using friendship data and incentive-compatible measures of antisocial and...
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Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1998
The relationship between teachers' characteristics and their pupils' achievement has been the subject of many studies. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training such as educational background. The effect of...
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Training and the private sector : international comparisons
Lynch, Lisa M. (ed.) - 1994
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Educational Production
Lazear, Edward P. - 1999
their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching …
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