This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school’s performance …

absences, or exclude student absences altogether. Regardless of how between-school differences are accounted for, VAM … context of self-contained primary school classroom teachers. These results are consistent with recent research suggesting that …

characteristics and levels of ability, students' relative rank within the classroom, and school context. High teacher grading …

rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of the students who change schools go to a school of the same or worse …

This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school's performance …

Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve … school leaders and education policymakers, and how the tools of applied economics can help address those challenges. The … effective teachers. We also discuss how different policies, incentives, school characteristics, and professional …

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality …

parts: The first included 7 items about respondent characteristics, the second 16 items about school quality, the third 18 … policy makers to highlight teacher’s self-efficacy and satisfaction, and students’ and parents’ satisfaction and school …