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The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection : evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan; … - 2024
design systems to hire the most effective teachers. This paper examines the effects of a national policy reform in Colombia … teachers being replaced by high exam-performing novice teachers. We find that though the policy sharply increased pre …-college test scores of teachers, it also decreased the overall stock of teacher experience and led to sharp decreases in students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062092
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When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk : Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Kerwin, Jason; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. Discretion did not lower the quality of implementation or induce shirking. Allowing teachers flexibility to adjust classroom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015171645
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Educational outcomes : a literature review of policy drivers from a macroeconomic perspective
Smidova, Zuzana - 2019
This paper reviews recent empirical literature on policy drivers of two educational outcomes - years of schooling and rates of return - that form the OECD’s aggregate measure of human capital. The paper sets the literature findings into the context of current educational polices in place in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202848
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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
(i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their … peers, and (iii) outreach and support from NGO staff at least twice per year. The program increased teachers' use of active …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265259
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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
(i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their … peers, and (iii) outreach and support from NGO staff at least twice per year. The program increased teachers' use of active …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271866
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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P. - 2020
(i) six training sessions during school breaks, ii) exchange visits each term where teachers provided feedback to their … peers, and (iii) outreach and support from NGO staff at least twice per year. The program increased teachers' use of active …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824424
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The Unintended Consequences of Merit-based Teacher Selection : Evidence from Large-scale Reform in Colombia
Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
design systems to hire the most effective teachers. This paper examines the effects of a national policy reform in Colombia … teachers being replaced by high exam-performing novice teachers. We find that though the policy sharply increased pre …-college test scores of teachers, it also decreased the overall stock of teacher experience and led to sharp decreases in students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072949
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534439
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Does the teacher beat the test? : the additional value of teacher assessment in predicting student ability
Feron, Eva; Schils, Trudie; Weel, Bas ter - 2015
This research investigates to what extent subjective teacher assessment of children's ability adds to the use of test scores in the explanation of children's outcomes in the transition from elementary to secondary school in terms of initial track allocation, track switching in the first three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469683
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937