Nonetheless, the research on the long - term effects of teachers finds that English teachers have at least as much of
an effect as math teachers.
Not exact matches
By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a
teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total
effect on student achievement
as measured by student - test - based measures of
teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in
math.
We know that mentors provide new
teachers with much - needed support and guidance in their crucial first years, but there's a strong pass - through
effect as well: Students of mentored
teachers gained the equivalent of 3 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading and
math over the course of a year, a new study found.
We also control for the total number of minutes per week that the
teacher reported teaching the
math or science class,
as more total instructional time could have an independent
effect on student learning.
These and other findings with respect to the correlates of
teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics
as well
as school and (where appropriate
teacher) fixed
effects in order to measure
teacher effectiveness in reading and
math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.
Similarly, English
teachers in Miami - Dade County Public Schools demonstrate a persistent
effect on
math that is 46 percent
as large
as their
effect on English, while
math teachers in the district have a persistent
effect on English that is less than five percent
as large
as their persistent
effect on
math.
Giving
teachers both the lesson plans and support had a positive, significant
effect on students» end - of - year
math test scores, according to the study, which was published
as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Even though, on average, English
teachers don't increase English language arts test scores
as much
as math teachers increase
math scores, English
teachers have
as strong an
effect on students» later lives.
English
teachers have important
effects that go far beyond test performance and affect not only behaviors such
as attendance and successful course completion but also test performance in other subject areas such
as math.
While there is not a clear causal
effect between a
teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and
teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such
as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for
math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.
Findings show year - to - year correlations in
teacher effects are modest, but pre-tenure estimates of
teacher job performance do predict estimated post-tenure performance in both
math and reading, and would therefore seem to be a reasonable metric to use
as a factor in making substantive
teacher selection decisions.