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significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually … function that affects the technology of teaching. In particular, there was phasing in of intensive support to some schools … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to …
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Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it … is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the effects of teaching repetition in a … of positive effects on teaching evaluations. These results suggest that teaching repetition is a powerful tool to reduce …
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost classroom instruction on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum....
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Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35...
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Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We estimate value-added models of outcomes on multiple choice and essay exams, with matched classroom...
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In this study, we describe the postsecondary transitions of students taking CTE courses in high school using administrative data on one cohort of high school students from Washington State. Our findings indicate that CTE students are less likely to enroll in college overall, especially four-year...
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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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This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The … a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to work in teaching, every vocational teacher has to change his or her … initial career. This paper focuses on the relevance of monetary motives for changing a career to teaching. Using a unique data …
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Despite efforts to integrate refugee children into host country education systems, their low school attachment remains a major policy challenge. Teachers play a key role in keeping students attached to school, yet classroom diversity poses difficulties for teachers who are not always adequately...
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We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country's required upper...
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