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This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
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of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … experiment is much more positive than their students' evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We … also find that provision of feedback reduces the gap between teachers' self-assessment and students' assessment, but only …
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theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students … student absenteeism. Similarly, student suspensions reflect students' relationships with their teacher, students' comfort … strategy to identify the impact of student-teacher demographic mismatch on primary school students' absences and suspensions …
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We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within …-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and controlling student-teacher fixed effects, we … find that teachers with college majors in natural sciences improve students' achievement of subfields in natural sciences …
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Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We …
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characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it … teacher's students.The differences are large in magnitude and statistically significant. The year-to-year stability level of … students compared to teachers with initially lower performing students. In addition, some differences are detected even when …
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(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more …
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-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … empirical analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data from a major undergraduate program where students are allocated … amongst students, even in an institution that imposes rigorous admission criteria and so has little observable heterogeneity …
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How do teacher incentives affect student achievement? We contribute to this question by examining the effects of the recent introduction of teacher performance-related pay and tournaments in Portugal's public schools. Specifically, we draw on matched student-school panel data covering the...
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. In particular, using a large administrative dataset of 364,445 exit exam outcomes for 72,889 students, we assess the …
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