Methods for measuring school effectiveness

J Angrist, P Hull, C Walters - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023 - Elsevier
Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

Teacher evaluation and training

ES Taylor - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation and training are important features of the employment relationship
between teachers and the schools they work for. The first feature, evaluation, involves …

Interscholastic Policy Debate Promotes Critical Thinking and College-Going: Evidence From Boston Public Schools

BE Schueler, KE Larned - Educational Evaluation and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Few interventions reduce inequality in reading achievement, let alone higher-order thinking
skills, among adolescents. We study policy debate—an extracurricular activity focused on …

Measuring returns to experience using supervisor ratings of observed performance: The case of classroom teachers

C Bell, J James, ES Taylor… - Journal of Policy Analysis …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from
classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Teaching quality and student reading outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal study from grade 5 to 7

M Attig, F Hoferichter, I Steinmann… - Studies in Educational …, 2024 - Elsevier
The literature on the effects of teaching behavior on student competence and motivation has
primarily focused on single teaching facets, with limited attention to multiple components …

[PDF][PDF] Defining and Measuring Teaching Quality

MA Tikrity - Article. Smart Teaching System. Dr Mohammed A …, 2023 - researchgate.net
One of the most important topics in the field of education is teacher quality and its impact on
student achievement. Various studies have shown that teacher quality is the single most …

ENHANCING STUDENT ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

F Yuliana, W Sahayu - English Review: Journal of English …, 2024 - journal.uniku.ac.id
Writing becomes one of the most difficult skills to be experted by the students, especially in
high school level. Therefore, Project Based-Learning is offered to solve the difficulties that …

Small Fish in a Big Pool: The Discouraging Effects of Relative Assessment

N Bottan, D Bernhardt - Available at SSRN, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies the impact of relative assessment on performance using a
quasiexperiment: club-level swimming competitions in the US. By exploiting the agegroup …

Pandemic Learning Loss by Student Baseline Achievement: Extent and Sources of Heterogeneity. Working Paper No. 292-0224.

I Callen, D Goldhaber, TJ Kane, A McDonald… - National Center for …, 2024 - ERIC
It is now well established that the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating and unequal
impact on student achievement. Test score declines were disproportionately large for …

Summer School as a Learning Loss Recovery Strategy after COVID-19: Evidence from Summer 2022. Working Paper No. 291-0823.

I Callen, MV Carbonari, M DeArmond, D Dewey… - National Center for …, 2023 - ERIC
To make up for pandemic-related learning losses, many US public school districts have
increased enrollment in their summer school programs. We assess summer school as a …