This document investigates the effect that the delivery of XO laptops in Peru has had on teachers' pedagogical … delivery of XO laptops reduces the probability that teachers will use a student-centered method with cooperative …

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 advancement. In this paper, we show that these evaluations contribute to improving …

School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students …

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while …'s teachers, and knowledge of the correlation structure of teacher knowledge across time and grades, allow estimating two …

teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a) with school-year fixed effects as an additional ….S. schools. Using TVA estimates, we examine their associations with gender, teaching experience, age, and promotions of teachers …. We find that these observable characteristics of teachers are statistically significantly associated with TVA estimates …

better educational outcomes: quality pre-primary education, quality teaching, accountability and autonomy of teaching … institutions, comprehensive lower secondary education and availability of individual financing for the pursuit of higher education. …