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Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on data on grade 9 students (age 16) from Sweden. I find that a student is … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317909
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Comparing teachers' assessments and national test results: Evidence from Sweden
Lindahl, Erica - 2007
of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317940
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Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010
particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self … significantly reduce the gender test score gap. A remaining gap of 14% of a standard deviation in test scores is unexplained. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303807
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One size fits all? The effects of teacher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on student achievement
Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008
Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273945
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One Size Fits All? The Effects of Teacher Cognitive and Non-cognitive Abilities on Student
Grönqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008
Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320324
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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 have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term)...
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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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/10010270485
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Identifying the Incidence of "Grading on a Curve": A Within-Student Across-Subject Approach
Piopiunik, Marc; Schlotter, Martin - 2012
Theoretical work shows that grading on a curve, i.e., teachers assessing students relativeto their classmates, can negatively affect students' learning effort. However, little isknown about its empirical incidence. To overcome bias from non-random sorting andomitted variables like teachers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312189
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The influence of student achievement on teacher turnover
Falch, Torberg; R?nning, Marte - 2005
Evidence on teacher behavior is essential for the understanding of the performance of school systems. In this paper we utilize rich data to study the teachers? quit decision in Norway. We distinguish between decisions to move between public schools within school districts, to another school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261194