ERIC Number: ED672364
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Publication Date: 2023-Sep
Pages: 104
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Disparate Teacher Effects, Comparative Advantage, and Match Quality. EdWorkingPaper No. 23-848
William Delgado
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
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 captures the degree to which teachers affect student outcome gaps. Quasi-experimental changes in teaching staff show that the comparative advantage measure accurately predicts teachers' disparate impacts: a teacher with a 1 standard deviation in revealed comparative advantage for black students increases black students' test scores by 1 standard deviation and has no effect on non-black students' test scores. Teacher removal and teacher-to-classroom re-allocation simulations show substantial efficiency and equity gains of considering teachers' comparative advantage.
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Attribution Theory, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education, Prediction, Achievement Tests, Scores, Equal Education, Efficiency, Race, African American Students, Achievement Gap, Public School Teachers, State Standards, Elementary School Students, Teacher Characteristics, Middle School Students, Student Characteristics, Gender Differences, Ethnicity, Racial Differences, Goodness of Fit, Socioeconomic Status, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Placement, Accountability
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago)
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