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Goldhaber, Dan; Hansen, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
Reforming teacher tenure is an idea that appears to be gaining traction with the underlying assumption being that one can infer to a reasonable degree how well a teacher will perform over her career based on estimates of her early-career effectiveness. Here we explore the potential for using value-added models to estimate performance and inform…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Tenure, Job Performance, Teacher Influence
Armor, David J.; Duck, Stephanie – Education Working Paper Archive, 2007
Recent studies have used increasingly complex methodologies to estimate the effect of peer characteristics--race, poverty, and ability--on student achievement. A paper by Hanushek, Kain, and Rivkin using Texas state testing data has received particularly wide attention because it found a large negative effect of school percent black on black math…
Descriptors: Testing, Mathematics Achievement, African American Students, Peer Influence