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What teachers believe : mental models about accountability, absenteeism, and student learning

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Abu-Jawdeh, Malek - 2018

absenteeism, accountability, and student learning. This paper explores this idea using data from 16,000 teachers across eight … developing countries, spanning five regions. It finds that, on average, teachers support test-based accountability and believe …-performing and well-resourced students. Finally, the paper shows that ideas of accountability and absenteeism are strongly framed by …

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Chapter 18 Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 1051-1078). 2006

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about teacher labor markets and the determinants of teacher effectiveness in the classroom. This chapter reviews...

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Why programs fail: lessons for improving public service quality from a mixed-methods evaluation of an unsuccessful teacher training program in Nepal

Schaffner, Julie Anderson; Glewwe, Paul; Sharma, Uttam - 2021

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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa

Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...

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School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil-teacher ratios : experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - In: Journal of public economics 123 (2015), pp. 92-110

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Stress test: examining the evolution of teachers' mental health over time

Holt, Stephen B.; Wang, Rui; Gershenson, Seth - 2020

Teaching is often assumed to be a relatively stressful occupation and occupational stress among teachers has been linked to poor mental health, attrition from the profession, and decreased effectiveness in the classroom. Despite widespread concern about teachers' mental health, however, little...

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How much does teacher quality vary across teacher preparation programs? : reanalyses from six states

Hippel, Paul von; Bellows, Laura - In: Economics of education review 64 (2018), pp. 298-312

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Teacher value-added and economic agency

Macartney, Hugh; McMillan, Robert; Petronijevic, Uros - 2019

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Teacher quality differences between teacher preparation programs : How big? How reliable? Which programs are different?

Hippel, Paul von; Bellows, Laura; Osborne, Cynthia; … - In: Economics of education review 53 (2016), pp. 31-45

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One size fits all? : the effects of teacher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on student achievement

Grönqvist, Erik (contributor); Vlachos, Jonas (contributor) - 2008

Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft...

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