Similar Search Results

The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2014

women's access to high-skill occupations outside teaching and to salary premiums for teachers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040536

Instruction Time, Classroom Quality, and Academic Achievement

Rivkin, Steven G. - 2013

Many countries, American jurisdictions and charter schools have recently embraced longer school days or more time devoted to core academic classes. Recent research generally supports the notion that additional time raises achievement, though difficulties isolating an exogenous source of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075429

An Evaluation of Bias in Three Measures of Teacher Quality : Value-Added, Classroom Observations, and Student Surveys

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2017

There are three primary measures of teaching performance: student test-based measures (i.e., value added), classroom …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954918

Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness

Deming, David J. - 2014

Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school attendance is necessary to test the validity of VAMs, and to guide the selection of models for measuring causal effects of schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060696

Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044342

Can Online Off-the-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2016

multitask model of teaching. The intervention is more scalable and cost effective than most policies aimed at improving teacher …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987129

Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support : Evidence from Pathways to Education

Lavecchia, Adam - 2019

We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890864

Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates

Borjas, George J. - 2021

complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228231

Does Classroom Time Matter? a Randomized Field Experiment of Hybrid and Traditional Lecture Formats in Economics

Joyce, Theodore J. - 2014

We test whether students in a hybrid format of introductory microeconomics, which met once per week, performed as well as students in a traditional lecture format of the same class, which met twice per week. We randomized 725 students at a large, urban public university into the two formats, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056587

Educational Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249228