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Who Teaches the Teachers? A Rct of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Wyness, Gillian; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factor in determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robust quantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can have lasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, we conduct...

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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018

This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student\'s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...

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Peer effects in Austrian schools

Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Empirical Economics 32 (2007) 2, pp. 387-409

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How should we organize schooling to further children with migration background?

Schneeweis, Nicole - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006

exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …

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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2020

This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and ﬁfth...

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Immigrant concentration in schools : consequences for native and migrant students

Schneeweis, Nicole - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 35 (2015), pp. 63-76

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The causal effect of education on health: what is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - In: Health economics 25 (2016) 3, pp. 314-336

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Who teaches the teacher? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2018

It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factorin determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robustquantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can havelasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, weconduct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890165

Viele Kinder von Geflüchteten besuchen eine Kita oder Grundschule : Nachholbedarf bei den unter Dreijährigen und der Sprachförderung von Schulkindern

Gambaro, Ludovica; Liebau, Elisabeth; Peter, Frauke; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 84 (2017) 19, pp. 379-386

Der Besuch einer Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita) oder einer Grundschule stellt für Kinder mit Fluchthintergrund einen wichtigen Bestandteil der Integration und Teilhabe an der deutschen Gesellschaft dar. Im Kontext des Zuzugs von mehr als 890 000 Schutzsuchenden im Jahr 2015 untersucht dieser...

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Social housing, neighborhood quality and student performance

Weinhardt, Felix - In: Journal of urban economics 82 (2014), pp. 12-31

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