The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning
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This paper constructs a statistical model of learning that suggests a sys-tematic way of measuring the persistence of treatment effects in education. This method is straightforward to implement, allows for comparisons across educational treatments, and can be related to intuitive benchmarks. We demonstrate the methodology using student-teacher linked administra-tive data for North Carolina to examine the persistence of teacher quality. We find that teacher-induced learning has low persistence, with three-quarters or more fading out within one year. Other measures of teacher quality produce similar or lower persistence estimates. I.
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Teachers' impacts on test scores fade out very rapidly in subsequent grades.
“Our conclusion that teachers have long-lasting impacts may be surprising given evidence that teachers' impacts on test scores fade out very rapidly in subsequent grades (Rothstein 2010; Carrell and West 2010; Jacob, Lefgren, and Sims 2010).”
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- Authors
- Jacob, B. A., Lefgren, L., & Sims, D. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Brigham Young University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Human Resources
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 915-943
- ISSN
- 0022-166X (ISSN-L)
- 1548-8004
- OpenAlex
- W2063184673
- Cited by
- 149
- References
- 32
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- FWCI
- 48.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Human Resources (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Assessments
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- teacher quality, educational intervention, academic performance
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