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Download full textBen Backes; James Cowan; Dan Goldhaber – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Departmentalized instruction, in which teachers specialize in one or more core subjects and instruct multiple groups of students in a day, has become increasingly prominent in elementary schools. Using 8 years of data from Massachusetts and a difference-in-differences design, we estimate the effects of departmentalization on student achievement.…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Effectiveness, Departments, Teaching Methods
