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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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Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective … not affect life satisfaction, noncognitive skills, nor test scores. We conclude that teaching practices – group discussion …
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This document investigates the effect that the delivery of XO laptops in Peru has had on teachers' pedagogical practices and students' use of time in the home based on information from a randomized control trial. The results show that the delivery of XO laptops reduces the probability that...
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Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores, based on a sample from the 2015 PISA which includes more than 35...
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for policy-makers seeking to use additional teaching resources to target a heterogeneous student population efficiently. …
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
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"Out-of-field" teaching in mathematics refers to teachers who teach the subject without mathematics …-specific qualifications to do so. Out-of-field teaching has the potential to affect teachers' classroom instruction practices with … consequences for student learning. This report describes the incidence and correlates of out-of-field teaching of Year 10 …
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Recent evidence suggests a positive effect of the quantity of instruction on student achievement. In this paper, I focus on the interaction between the quantity and the quality of instruction. Using international TIMSS data, I exploit within-student between-subject variation. I find that on...
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost classroom instruction on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years without adjusting the core curriculum....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052411
This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342904