Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55104 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5974
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of different sizes. The data included information about mathematics and reading scores and student demographics such as gender, race, and SES. Teacher effects were computed as residual classroom achievement within schools and within grades. Then, teacher effects were used as predictors of achievement in following grades and quantile regression was used to estimate their persistence. Results consistently indicated that all students benefited similarly from teachers. Overall, systematic differential teacher effects were not observed and it appears that lower-performing students benefit as much as other students from teachers. In fourth grade there was some evidence that lower-performing students benefit more from effective teachers. Results from longitudinal analyses suggested that having effective teachers in successive grades is beneficial to all students and to lower-performing students in particular in mathematics. However, having low-effective teachers in successive grades is detrimental to all students and to lower-performing students in particular in reading.
Subjects: 
teacher effects
low-achievers
quantile regression
JEL: 
I20
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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