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proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment. …
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nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
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Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers … and teachers in 8th and 9th grade Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading …
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teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower …
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nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983910
of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …
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We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the …
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This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth grade in Louisiana using administrative data on all public K-12 students combined with...
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Each year an estimated two million children in the United States repeat a grade. Investing an additional year in the same grade is expected to help a child to acquire the academic skills she lacks. This, in turn, would help her to be successful in higher grades. In spite of its popularity, grade...
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teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed that teacher attributes which favored learning appeared more …
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