Showing 1 - 10 of 350
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076574
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159527
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778252
availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a ten-year period allows us to explore them in more detail … effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economics characteristics of students, as measured, for example, by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760459
We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre-experimental period, we used these estimates to predict student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765559
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767515
access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987129
to be matched with more advantaged students, and we measure the bias this pattern generates in estimates of the impacts … restrict the analysis to schools that assign students to classrooms in a manner statistically indistinguishable from random … advantaged students, a finding that may help explain why the observed form of teacher-student matching persists in equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247422
' conduct with their students improve marginally academic performance, especially among boys. Apart from identifying "what works … classroom production function of knowledge. Second, it is best to target the two teaching practices differentially to students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128274
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of mid-career public school teachers where we can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128610