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Eleonora Bertoni; Gregory Elacqua; Carolina Mendez; Humberto Santos – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
In this article, we explore whether the evaluation instruments used in the teacher selection process in Peru are good predictors of teacher effectiveness. To this end, we estimate teacher value-added (TVA) measures for public primary school teachers and test their relationship with Peru's results of two rounds of the teacher evaluation (i.e., a…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Value Added Models, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
Andrés Barrios-Fernández; Marc Riudavets-Barcons – Centre for Economic Performance, 2024
This paper uses rich administrative data from Chile to estimate teacher value added (TVA) on test scores and on an educational attainment index. We allow each teacher to have a different TVA for male and female students and show that differences in TVA explain an important part of the gender gaps we observe in test scores and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Gender Differences
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Gao, Chunlei; Bi, Xueke – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
Education systems focus on issues related to school effects and differences. School effects are used as a basis for accountability in various countries including China. This study investigated the stability and cross-disciplinary consistency of value-added estimates based on student scores in selected schools in a city in central China. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
Kevin Christopher Ng – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is comprised of three essays, each examining a different topic in labor economics. In Chapter 1, I examine the productivity and selection effects of K-12 teacher tenure by leveraging variation from New Jersey's TEACHNJ Act. This law extended the pre-tenure period from three to four years and allowed districts to dismiss…
Descriptors: Labor Economics, Productivity, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Laura Holian; Catharine Warner-Griffin – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand how a school-based personalized learning approach can help improve literacy achievement among middle grades students in a rural area. This study followed two cohorts of schools serving students in grades 6-8 in northeast Tennessee for one year each (2018-19 and 2021-22), to assess student and school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Grade 6
William Delgado – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Does student-teacher match quality exist? Prior work has documented large disparities in teachers' impacts across student types but has not distinguished between sorting and causal effects as the drivers of these disparities. I propose a disparate value-added model and derive a novel measure of teacher quality--revealed comparative advantage--that…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Attribution Theory