students and teachers (e.g., role-model and Pygmalion effects). However, the evidence on whether these interactions actually … dynamics between teachers and students at this level amplify boys' large underperformance in reading while attenuating the more …. However, because the middle-school teachers in most academic subjects are female, these results also suggest that the gender …

availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail …Education researchers and policy makers agree that teachers differ in terms of quality and that quality matters for … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with …There has been a proliferation of websites that warehouse instructional materials designed to be taught by teachers in … a traditional classroom. While this new technology has revolutionized how most teachers plan their lessons, the …

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to … interest outcomes. Student fixed effects, time of day and week controls, and the fact that first year students have little …'s influence on students while objective characteristics such as rank and salary do not. Whether an instructor teaches full-time or …

This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern … students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present … across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less …

harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …

Growing concerns over the achievement of U.S. students have led to proposals to reward good teachers and penalize (or … teachers cannot influence students' past achievement. In data from North Carolina, each of the VAMs' exclusion restrictions are … students' test scores into components attributed to student heterogeneity and to teacher quality. Implicit in the VAM approach …

There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary … approach. Most agree, however, that we lack a strong research basis for understanding how to prepare teachers. This paper is … one of the first to estimate the effects of features of teachers' preparation on teachers' value-added to student test …

schools, students, and their families with our own survey conducted in 2000 regarding the use of teacher incentives. This … from teachers; it is impossible to rule out the former explanation with our cross sectional data …