Sentences with phrase «observed teacher characteristics»

Second, we find that cross-sector differences in observed teacher characteristics such as experience and educational attainment fail to explain any of the observed gaps in teacher effectiveness in higher - poverty settings.

Not exact matches

That work has led her to consider the common characteristics possessed by the best teachers she has observed.

Performance metrics tied directly to student test - score growth are appealing because although schools and teachers differ dramatically in their effects on student achievement, researchers have had great difficulty linking these performance differences to characteristics that are easily observed and measured.

However, recent studies using randomized admission lotteries at charter schools and the random assignment of teachers has suggested that simple, low - cost methods, when they control for students» prior achievement and characteristics, can yield estimates of teacher and school effects that are similar to what one observes with a randomized field trial.

These predictive effects can be based on residuals, where first we form predictions based on observed variables (X) such as class size, years of teacher experience, lagged test scores, and parent characteristics.

In any case, our analysis below controls for each of these measures of teachers» qualifications in order to rule out the possibility that teachers» observed characteristics drive the estimated effects of grading standards on student outcomes.

2) the indirect channel that works through families» choices of schools, in which the school characteristics relevant to achievement are more fully captured by what parents observe than by the short list of school descriptors in the regression (for instance, well - educated parents choose teachers with higher value - added); or

Estimating the effect of individual teachers» grading standards on their students» achievement gains assumes that these standards remain relatively consistent over time, that they are not unduly influenced by the composition of their class, and that they are not a reflection of some other observable characteristic that might account for any effects we observe.

However, little work assesses the extent to which differences in the neighborhoods in which schools are located either affect teacher recruitment and retention or explain the observed relationship between school characteristics and teachers» career choices.

One Teach, One Observe: Exactly as it sounds, one teacher observes specific student characteristics while the other teaches.

Nine teachers and I spent nine days observing three high - quality schools and considering which of their characteristics we could replicate at Anderson.

In studies of a first - grade ESL class where writing improved substantially over the course of a school year, Yedlin (2003, 2004) observed the first two characteristics above, but also noted that the ESL teacher provided students with feedback on both content and form.

Observed Classroom Quality in First Grade: Associations with Teacher, Classroom, and School Characteristics.