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

that Italian students receive during the school year. Using data for all sixth graders, descriptives show that in both …

mentors. Although assignment of teachers to mentors was non-random, I use instrumental variables and school fixed effects to …, and student achievement. The most consistent finding is that retention within a particular school is higher when a mentor … has previous experience working in that school, suggesting that an important part of mentoring may be the provision of …

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 …

organizations. Primary school classrooms provide an ideal context in which to test the predictions of representative bureaucracy … theory at the micro (student) level. Specifically, since parents have at least some agency over primary school students …' daily attendance, absences reflect parental assessments of their child's school, classroom, and teacher. The …

Previous research shows that ethnic minority students perform poorer in school when they are taught by ethnic majority …

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response …

We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for …

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