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testing. Under high-stakes benchmark testing, schools and teachers are judged on the fraction of students that meet some given … level of educational attainment. The incentive for teachers is then to allocate their resources towards students who are on …
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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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teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed that teacher attributes which favored learning appeared more …
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We study if Italian teachers do apply gender discrimination when judging students. To this aim, we use a difference …-in-differences approach that exploits the availability of both teachers (non-blind) and standardized test (blind) scores in math and language …. Moreover, our analysis suggest that boys are always discriminated by teachers in both subjects. This result holds also when we …
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Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but we … mentors. Although assignment of teachers to mentors was non-random, I use instrumental variables and school fixed effects to … address potential sources of bias. I find strong relationships between measures of mentoring quality and teachers' claims …
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Purpose: The current study aims to examine the impact of teachers’ job satisfaction and self-efficacy in improving … teachers emphasizing on different aspects of marketing: external, interactive or internal marketing.Methods: Questionnaire … survey, on a sample of 193 teachers in a total number of 420 has been used. The 74-item questionnaire was divided into 4 …
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linked to particular teachers and classes, to estimate the impact of observable and unobservable schooling characteristics on …
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We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference-in-differences...
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school fixed effects, I use plausibly random variation in assignment to Relay teachers within students over time to identify … causal Relay program effects. I find that teachers prepared and developed by the Relay program are more effective in … improving students’ attendance and suspension outcomes relative to non-Relay teachers. Estimated teacher effects are small, but …
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The rise of high-stakes accountability programs was one of the most noticeable changes in the U.S. education system during the 1990s and early 2000s. We measure the impact of these programs on students' long-run outcomes. We find that exposure to accountability modestly but detectably increased...
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