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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...

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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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Virtually no effect? : different uses of classroom computers and their effect on student achievement

Falck, Oliver; Mang, Constantin; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … and negative effects of uses that substitute more effective teaching practices. Our correlated random effects models …

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Is traditional teaching really all that bad? : a within-student between-subject approach

Schwerdt, Guido; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2009

determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black box of educational production by investigating the … relationship between lecture style teaching and student achievement. Based on matched student-teacher data for the US, the … traditional lecture style teaching is associated with significantly higher student achievement. No support for detrimental effects …

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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine...

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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

than for girls. For policy, our findings suggest binding distance-teaching concepts particularly targeted at low-achievers. …

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The association of opening K-12 schools and colleges with the spread of Covid-19 in the United States : county-level panel data analysis

Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021

an increase in visits to schools and opening schools with different teaching methods (in-person, hybrid, and remote) is …

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Tutoring in (online) higher education : experimental evidence

Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2022

effectiveness. We conducted an RCT offering remote peer tutoring in micro- and macroeconomics at a German university teaching online …

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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children

Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amelie; Rouche, … - 2019

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...

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Small group instruction to improve student performance in mathematics in early grades : results from a randomized field experiment

Bonesrønning, Hans; Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Inés; … - 2021

for policy-makers seeking to use additional teaching resources to target a heterogeneous student population efficiently. …

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