@techreport{Valletta2012Lost,
abstract = {Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We estimate value-added models of outcomes on multiple choice and essay exams, with matched classroom pairs for each teacher enabling random effects and fixed-effects estimation. Students' own and peer GPAs and their attitudes towards economics have the largest effects on value-added scores. We also find a substantial impact of specialized teacher experience and college-level coursework in economics, although the effects of the latter are positive for the multiple choice test and negative for the essay test.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Rob Valletta and K. Jody Hoff and Jane S. Lopus},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {A21; I21; 330; high school economics; teacher training; Wirtschaftsp\"{a}dagogik; Lehrkr\"{a}fte; Weiterbildung; Wirkungsanalyse; Studierende; Bildungsniveau; Sch\"{a}tzung; Kalifornien},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-201206146879},
number = {6402},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Lost in translation? Teacher training and outcomes in high school economics classes},
type = {Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58952},
year = {2012}
}
