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Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This paper examines how different measures of teacher quality are related to students' long-run educational trajectories. We estimate teachers' "test-based" and "nontest" value-added (the latter based on contributions to student absences, suspensions, grade progression, and grades) and assess how these predict various student…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Learning Trajectories
Xu, Zeyu; Backes, Ben – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
In this descriptive study, we use longitudinal student-level administrative records from 4 cohorts of high school graduates in Kentucky to examine the extent to which students persist and attain post-secondary credentials in the CTE fields of concentration they choose in high school. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to use student-level…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Academic Persistence, Postsecondary Education, Vocational Education
Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
We examine how different measures of teacher quality are related to students' long-run trajectories. Comparing teachers' "test-based" value-added to "nontest" value-added -- based on contributions to student absences and grades -- we find that test and nontest value-added have similar effects on the average quality of colleges…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques, Outcomes of Education, Attendance Patterns