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 …

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

within-group sorting, we conducted our field experiment within primary school classrooms where a pair of deskmates forms the …

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 …

I analyze the impact of a non-traditional teacher preparation program, Relay Graduate School of Education, on student … non-test outcomes for all New York City public school students in grades 3–8 over 6 years. By controlling for student and … school fixed effects, I use plausibly random variation in assignment to Relay teachers within students over time to identify …

trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72 …, HSB:82, and NELS:92. Hierarchical linear models are used to investigate school effects. The findings reveal that the … between school variation in achievement, which becomes larger over time. Schools are more diverse and more segregated in the …