Abstract
Unlike in elementary school, high school teacher effects may be confounded with both selection to tracks and track-level treatments. I document confounding track effects and show that traditional tests for the existence of teacher effects are biased. After accounting for biases, high school algebra and English teachers have smaller test score effects than found in previous studies and value-added estimates are weak predictors of teachers’ future performance. Results indicate that either (a) teachers are less influential in high school than in elementary school or (b) test score effects are a weak measure of teacher quality at the high school level.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 645-684 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Journal | Journal of Labor Economics |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1 2014 |
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Teacher quality at the high school level : The importance of accounting for tracks. / Jackson, Clement Kirabo.
In: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 32, No. 4, 01.10.2014, p. 645-684.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Teacher quality at the high school level
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AU - Jackson, Clement Kirabo
PY - 2014/10/1
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N2 - Unlike in elementary school, high school teacher effects may be confounded with both selection to tracks and track-level treatments. I document confounding track effects and show that traditional tests for the existence of teacher effects are biased. After accounting for biases, high school algebra and English teachers have smaller test score effects than found in previous studies and value-added estimates are weak predictors of teachers’ future performance. Results indicate that either (a) teachers are less influential in high school than in elementary school or (b) test score effects are a weak measure of teacher quality at the high school level.
AB - Unlike in elementary school, high school teacher effects may be confounded with both selection to tracks and track-level treatments. I document confounding track effects and show that traditional tests for the existence of teacher effects are biased. After accounting for biases, high school algebra and English teachers have smaller test score effects than found in previous studies and value-added estimates are weak predictors of teachers’ future performance. Results indicate that either (a) teachers are less influential in high school than in elementary school or (b) test score effects are a weak measure of teacher quality at the high school level.
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