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Hendricks, Matthew D. – Texas Education Research Center, 2013
This study presents robust evidence on the relationship between teacher pay and turnover using detailed panel data from Texas. While controlling for changes in district and local labor market characteristics, the author estimates an overall turnover elasticity of -1.4 and shows that the effect is largest for inexperienced teachers, declines with…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Labor Turnover, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Experience
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Polikoff, Morgan S. – Educational Assessment, 2016
As state tests of student achievement are used for an increasingly wide array of high- and low-stakes purposes, evaluating their instructional sensitivity is essential. This article uses data from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Project to examine the instructional sensitivity of 4 states' mathematics and English…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, English