Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy … skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take …

We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the …

teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all Swiss universities for the period of 1981 …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases … to the fact that teachers? salaries are generally high in Switzerland - teachers here enjoy a positive wage differential …

of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a … randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as a year after the … receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …

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 …

This paper reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of individual merit pay systems for teachers on student … merit pay system that rewarded student retention and student evaluations of teachers while another comparable high school …

Good teachers are critical for a high-quality educational system. This in turns leads to the question of who is … interested in going into the teaching profession. Although research has been done on the professional careers of teachers, the … teachers depend to a large extent also on where and how teachers are trained. -- Teacher education ; teacher training ; teacher …

We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model … student while being bound by teachers’ collective bargaining agreement which equalizes teacher pay. Our model features two … stages of education: basic and advanced (college), the latter being required of teachers. The cost of hiring teachers is …

the early grades using data from the Tennessee STAR experiment with random assignment of teachers and students to classes … circumstances under which this investment is most rewarding. We find a class size effect only for senior teachers. The effect is … most pronounced for higher and average-performing students. We further show that senior teachers outperform rookies only in …