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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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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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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...
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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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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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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul - 2000
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471435
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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
Krueger, Alan B. - 1997
This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's...
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