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Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? : finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Sticky assessments : the impact of teachers' grading standard on pupils' school performance
Keller, Tamás - 2015
This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since they also reflect teachers' ratings of pupils. Grades therefore contain valuable information about pupils' own - usually unknown - ability. The incorporated assessment in grade...
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The effects of making performance information public : evidence from Los Angeles teachers and a regression discontinuity design
Bergman, Peter; Hill, Matthew J. - 2015
In theory, the publication of performance ratings may improve performance through reputation concerns and peer effects or impede performance by demoralizing employees. This paper uses school-district data and a regression discontinuity design to answer how consumers and employees respond to...
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When do teachers respond to student feedback? : evidence from a field experiment
Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2020
receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …
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Assessing Rothstein’s critique of teacher value-added models
Kinsler, Josh - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 2, pp. 333-362
Value-added models of teacher effectiveness yield consistent estimates of teacher quality under the assumption that students are randomly assigned to classrooms conditional on ability. Rothstein (2010) tested and rejected this underlying sort- ing assumption, casting doubt on the usefulness of...
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880526
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Are professors worth it? : the value-added and costs of tutorial instructors
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions - small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank teach tutorials more effectively in a setting where students are randomly assigned to tutorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936343
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Evaluating Teacher Evaluation – Evidence From Chile
de Barros, Andreas - 2018
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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