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two-year program in which three fourth and fifth grade teachers observed each other. We find that two cohorts of students … taught by treated teachers perform no better on externally graded national tests compared to business as usual. However this … masks large heterogeneity; in small schools, which would have no choice over which teachers would be involved, we find …
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these challenges with new administrative data on teachers assignments and their students outcomes, and quasi …
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While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing …
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perceived risk of allegations. Using media reports on allegations against teachers as shocks to perceived risk, I find for every … five reports occurring in a region, teachers are 2.5 percentage points more likely to be members in the subsequent year …. These effects are larger when teachers share characteristics with the news story and explain 45 percent of the growth in …
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We study the extent and consequences of biases against immigrants exhibited by high school teachers in Finland …. Compared to native students, immigrant students receive 0.06 standard deviation units lower scores from teachers than from … is largest in subjects where teachers have more discretion in grading. While teacher-assigned grades on the matriculation …
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teachers are linked to the presence of minorities in the classroom. We then test the key implications of this model using rich …
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We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the …
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two-year program in which three fourth and fifth grade teachers observed each other. We find that two cohorts of students … taught by treated teachers perform no better on externally graded national tests compared to business as usual. However this … masks large heterogeneity; in small schools, which would have no choice over which teachers would be involved, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207986
these challenges with new administrative data on teachers assignments and their students outcomes, and quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314901
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and … gains from reallocating teachers within a district. Using an estimated equilibrium model of the teacher labor market, we … find that achieving most of these gains requires directly affecting teachers' preferences over schools. In contrast …
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