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new needs of the industry by enrolling more in vocational secondary education. We also observe a decrease in academic high …
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This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have …' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority …
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With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the “feminization” of elementary school teaching is …
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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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This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700689
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252291
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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Have the recent changes in reproductive rights changed women's perceptions of discrimination and fair treatment relative to men's perceptions? To address this question, we collected online survey data (N=1,374) during spring 2023 using a randomized design that provided information about the...
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We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for choosing between random and fixed effects and a test for feedback (sometimes called a...
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