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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280667
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How long do teacher effects persist?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2007
Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that teacher effects can last up to five years. This study used high-quality data from a four-year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268240
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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2007
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268502
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269830
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003
or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school … sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261900
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291327
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Estimating the firm's labor supply curve in a new monopsony framework: school teachers in Missouri
Ransom, Michael R.; Sims, David P. - 2009
public school districts in Missouri. We take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in pre-negotiated district salary … 3.7, suggesting the presence of significant market power for school districts, especially over more experienced teachers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268936
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany
Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2005
Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate. Policies of encouraging early school entry or increased … consideration of a particular child's competency for school ("Schulfähigkeit") have been suggested. Using a dataset capturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262220
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The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents to the survey. Based on our quantile regressions, we interpret …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262700
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Close neighbours matter: neighbourhood effects on early performance at school
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric - 2006
us to address these problems. We find that an adolescent's performance at the end of junior high-school are strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267586