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Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of … teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on …
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This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public …. Additionally, we find that TVA estimates are positively associated with teacher promotions. …
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the implications for local teacher assessment practices. In this study we: (i) build on the framework of classical … curriculum documents, a quantitative teacher survey (n = 1 887) and a teacher interview study. The results show that the …
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the implications for local teacher assessment practices. In this study we: (i) build on the framework of classical … curriculum documents, a quantitative teacher survey (n = 1 887) and a teacher interview study. The results show that the …
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pedagógico colombiano._________ABSTRACTLecture showed in defense of public education for second forum.This paper seeks to show … how the speech about quality education in the pedagogyfield has been to became «rare» by the business concerns from …
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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. …
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Using data from TIMSS 2015, an international large-scale assessment of student skills, I investigate the effect of … teacher characteristics on students' science achievement. My identification strategy exploits the feature that in many … education systems different science domains (physics, biology, chemistry, and earth science) are taught by different teachers …
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education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of access to primary education was achieved relatively successfully, given … management, as being factors with a major influence on the poor quality of education in primary schools. …
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on gender equality in achievement across different sources: the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS …
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