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I ran an ANU conference today on ‘The Economics of Teacher Quality’. If you weren’t able to attend, here are the papers:
- Eric Hanushek, Stanford University
The Market for Teacher Quality (with Steven Rivkin) - Ken Rowe, Australian Council for Educational Research
Conceptualising and Evaluating Teacher Quality: Substantive and Methodological Issues (with Lawrence Ingvarson) - Chris Ryan, Australian National University
How and Why has Teacher Quality Changed in Australia? (with Andrew Leigh) - Gigi Foster, University of South Australia
Teacher Influence on Student Performance and Selection in Broad-Spectrum Tertiary Education - Hamilton Lankford, University at Albany
Teacher Attrition, Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement (with Don Boyd, Pam Grossman, Susanna Loeb and Jim Wyckoff) - Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University
Predicting Effective Teaching: Evidence from New York City
[...] Andrew Leigh ran an ANU conference yesterday on ‘The Economics of Teacher Quality’. I certainly haven’t read any of the papers in their entirety, but from study of the abstracts sprinkled with personal experience, I produced this thumbnail sketch of the findings. [...]
[...] Stan Correy, from ABC Radio’s Background Briefing program, put together a nice program on teacher merit pay, based in part on the conference I held recently on the economics of teacher quality. Here’s the Background Briefing transcript and podcast. [...]
[...] By contrast, the new merit pay contract would look quite different. For a start, the new contract would carry greater rewards. At a conference I ran recently at the Australian National University, US researchers Eric Hanushek, Hamilton Lankford and Jonah Rockoff presented studies that analysed teacher performance in terms of test score gains. Their work suggests that difference between a high-performing and a low-performing teacher is substantial. Switching from a teacher at the 10th percentile to a teacher at the 90th percentile would raise a typical student’s grades by 10 percentage points. Yet experience explains only a little of that gap, and teachers with a Masters degree do not appear to obtain significantly higher test score gains. [...]