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This study applies a quasi-experimental research design to evaluate the effects of Chile’s national teacher evaluation …’s identification strategy exploits a recent change in the evaluation assignment mechanism, together with a discontinuity in the … evaluation system’s scoring mechanism. Jointly, these two factors provide plausibly exogenous variation in which teachers get …
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This paper reviews recent empirical literature on policy drivers of two educational outcomes - years of schooling and rates of return - that form the OECD’s aggregate measure of human capital. The paper sets the literature findings into the context of current educational polices in place in...
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Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to pass national skill and content knowledge tests before they are allowed to participate in merit-based selection competitions for tenured positions at public schools in an attempt to raise teacher quality. We evaluate the...
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Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to pass national skill and content knowledge tests before they are allowed to participate in merit-based selection competitions for tenured positions at public schools in an attempt to raise teacher quality. We evaluate the...
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teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale … graduation and college enrollment. We also find little evidence that the effect of teacher evaluation reforms varied by system … undercut the efficacy of teacher evaluation reforms at scale: political opposition, the decentralized structure of U.S. public …
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Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to pass national skill and content knowledge tests before they are allowed to participate in merit-based selection competitions for tenured positions at public schools in an attempt to raise teacher quality. We evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342047
Teacher quality is a key factor in improving student academic achievement. As such, educational policymakers strive to design systems to hire the most effective teachers. This paper examines the effects of a national policy reform in Colombia that established a merit-based teacher-hiring system...
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Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
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Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973482
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