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Does school safety and classroom disciplinary climate hinder learning? : evidence from the MENA region
Cahu, Paul; Quota, Manal - 2019
School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students …' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022265
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School choice, student performance, and teacher and school characteristics : the Chilean case
Vegas, Emiliana - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001670029
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Teacher performance-based incentives and learning inequality
Filmer, Deon; Habyarimana, James Paul; Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2020
This study evaluates the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results from a two-phase randomized trial show that incentives for teachers led to modest average improvements in student achievement across different subjects. Further, withdrawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296909
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When do in-service teacher training and books improve student achievement? : experimental evidence from Mongolia
Fuje, Habtamu; Tandon, Prateek - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379053
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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019
attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022369
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Requirements to be a teacher in Brazil : effective or not?
Barbosa, Marcelo Ponte; Costa, Leandro Oliveira - 2019
is to investigate the effects of the increase in the share of public upper secondary school teachers with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114372
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What teachers believe : mental models about accountability, absenteeism, and student learning
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Abu-Jawdeh, Malek - 2018
The time teachers spend teaching is low in several developing countries. However, improving teacher effort has proven difficult. Why is it so difficult to increase teacher effort? One possibility is that teachers are resistant to increasing effort because they do not believe their effort is...
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No more cutting class? : Reducing teacher absence and providing incentives for performance
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2009
series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821125
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What do teachers know and do? : does it matter? : evidence from primary schools in Africa : background paper to the 2018 World Development Report
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Martin, Gayle; Molina, Ezequiel - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622638