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Recruiting Effective Math Teachers : How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?

Boyd, Donald - 2010

School districts often struggle to recruit and retain effective math teachers. Alternative-route certification programs aim to expand the pool of teachers available; however, many alternate routes have not been able to attract large numbers of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in...

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Catching Cheating Teachers : The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

Jacob, Brian A. - 2003

This paper reports on the results of a prospective implementation of methods for detecting teacher cheating. In Spring 2002, over 100 Chicago Public Schools elementary classrooms were selected for retesting based on the cheating detection algorithm. Classrooms prospectively identified as likely...

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The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests

Diamond, Rebecca - 2016

We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests. Bunching in Swedish math test score distributions reveal that teachers inflate students who have "a bad test day," but do not to discriminate based on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new...

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Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance : Evidence from IMPACT

Dee, Thomas - 2013

novel evidence on this topic based on IMPACT, the controversial teacher-evaluation system introduced in the District of …

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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - 2011

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 consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

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The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes : Evidence from Public School Teachers

Cronin, Christopher J.; Harris, Matthew C.; Ziebarth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies how U.S. employees use paid sick leave. The most common U.S. sick-leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts---paid leave is earned over time and unused leave accumulates, producing an employee-specific "leave balance." We construct a unique administrative dataset...

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Making Teaching Last : Long-Run Value-Added

Gilraine, Michael; Pope, Nolan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures...

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Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?

Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2007

Using detailed data from North Carolina, we examine the frequency, incidence, and consequences of teacher absences in public schools, as well as the impact of an absence disincentive policy. The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one...

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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

Stoddard, Christiana - 2006

Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...

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Equilibrium in the Market for Public School Teachers : District Wage Strategies and Teacher Comparative Advantage

Biasi, Barbara; Fu, Chao; Stromme, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the equity-efficiency implication of giving school districts control over teacher pay using an equilibrium model of the market for public-school teachers. Teachers differ in their comparative advantages in teaching low- or high-achieving students. School districts, which serve different...

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