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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment data, we construct country-level measures of teacher...

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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. We construct country-level measures of teacher cognitive skills using unique...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040536

When tenure ends : the short-run effects of the elimination of Louisiana's teacher employment protections on teacher exit and retirement

Barrett, Nathan; Strunk, Katharine O.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - In: Education economics 29 (2021) 6, pp. 559-579

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Bad economy, good teachers? : the countercyclicality of enrolment Into Initial Teacher Training Programmes in the UK

Fullard, Joshua - 2021

Using data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE), we take advantage of the plausibly exogenous …

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Incentives for teacher relocation : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance

Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2013

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...

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The compositional effect of rigorous teacher evaluation on workforce quality

Cullen, Julie Berry; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric - 2016

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Can UTeach? : assessing the relative effectiveness of STEM teachers

Backes, Benjamin; Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Cade, Whitney; … - In: Economics of education review 64 (2018), pp. 184-198

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Measuring teacher non-cognitive skills and its impact on students : insight from the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database

Cheng, Albert; Zamarro, Gema - In: Economics of education review 64 (2018), pp. 251-260

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Requirements to be a teacher in Brazil : effective or not?

Barbosa, Marcelo Ponte; Costa, Leandro Oliveira - 2019

education in 1996. They passed a national Law of Guidelines and Standards of Education that established 2007 as the deadline for … all Brazilian basic education teachers to have tertiary education-level qualifications. This implied a significant change … in the profile of teachers in basic education and in the provision of pre-service training. The objective of this study …

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Do multiple school jobs affect teacher performance? : evidence from Brazil

Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana - 2019

Low salaries, a limited amount of full-time teaching positions, and alternative systems of allocating teaching hours lead teachers to look for additional jobs in other schools. Although this is a more common phenomenon of teacher labor markets in developing countries, teachers who teach specific...

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