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This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
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Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers' control. Teachers often feel strongly that value-added models should account for student attendance, and many districts'...
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teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to female students. Gender bias had an even greater effect in classrooms … where the teachers had worse interactions with students. Results show that less effective teachers (according to the …
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Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an … immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in the United States. To account for the … different types of students, two estimation strategies are employed. The first estimates the immigrant teacher impact by …
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paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: students. We confirm that students are almost … instructors. We conclude that hiring moderately more student instructors would not harm students, but exclusively using them will …
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We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There …
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setting where students are randomly assigned to a university instructor's first, second, third or fourth lesson on the same … teachers' preparation time without negative effects on students. …
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