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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2009

determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …

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Teacher subject knowledge, didactic skills, and student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Bietenbecker, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...

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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine...

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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...