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Is teacher certification an effective tool for developing countries?

Pugatch, Todd - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Teachers are perhaps the most important determinant of education quality. But what makes a teacher effective …

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Teacher supply and the market for teachers

Andersson, Christian; Waldenström, Nina - 2007

The share of non-certified teachers in Swedish compulsory public schools has grown considerably during the last decade, from 7.2 percent in 1995/96 to 17.2 percent in 2003/04. Moreover, comparisons between schools and municipalities indicate large and increasing differences in the share of...

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Lost in translation? Teacher training and outcomes in high school economics classes

Valletta, Rob; Hoff, K. Jody; Lopus, Jane S. - 2012

Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We estimate value-added models of outcomes on multiple choice and essay exams, with matched classroom...

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Graded children: Evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform

Sjögren, Anna - 2010

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...

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Graded Children: Evidence of Longrun Consequences of School Grades from a Nationwide Reform

Sjögren, Anna - 2010

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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?

Riddell, Abby - 2012

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - 2008

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

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Teacher certification and student achievement in Swedish compulsory schools

Andersson, Christian; Waldenström, Nina - 2007

This study examines how the teaching staff composition with respect to certification affects student achievement in compulsory Swedish schools. The share of non-certified teachers in compulsory schooling has increased dramatically during the last decade, starting a large debate about school...

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Recruiting High Quality Teachers

Dolton, Peter - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 11-20

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The effect of subject-specific teacher qualifications on student science achievement

Freundl, Vera; Sancassani, Pietro - 2023

What makes a good teacher? This is one of the central questions in the economics of education. General teacher … qualifications, such as education level or advanced degrees, tend to be poor predictors of teacher quality. Instead, some studies … nations, as teacher education programs vary widely across countries. The lack of international evidence is particularly …

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