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proportion of black teachers, family fixed-effects models that compare siblings who attended the same school, and the random … assignment of students and teachers to classrooms created by the Project STAR class-size reduction experiment. …
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nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
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Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers … and teachers in 8th and 9th grade Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading …
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nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559593
teachers. Why this is the case was unclear. This paper focuses on one important potential explanation: I examine whether ethnic … majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower …
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nationally representative dataset: two teachers provided their educational expectations for each student. We provide novel … elasticity of the likelihood of college completion with respect to teachers' expectations is about 0.12. On average, teachers are … white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983910
We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary …
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testing. Under high-stakes benchmark testing, schools and teachers are judged on the fraction of students that meet some given … level of educational attainment. The incentive for teachers is then to allocate their resources towards students who are on …
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teaching sections during their first year, we are able to analyze the effect that teachers with different characteristics, in …'s undertaking additional courses in a subject, while more experienced teachers have a negative impact. However, also this effect …
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We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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