ERIC Number: ED583855
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Mar
Pages: 64
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2042-2695
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Teacher Quality, Test Scores and Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Primary School Teachers in the UK. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1472
Flèche, Sarah
Centre for Economic Performance
Schooling can produce both cognitive and non-cognitive skills, both of which are important determinants of adult outcomes. Using very rich data from a UK birth cohort study, I estimate teacher value added (VA) models for both pupils' test scores and non-cognitive skills. I show that teachers are equally important in the determination of pupils' test scores and non-cognitive skills. This finding extends the economics literature on teacher effects, which has primarily focused on pupils' test scores and may fail to capture teachers' overall effects. In addition, the large estimates reveal an interesting trade-off: teacher VA on pupils' test scores are weak predictors of teacher VA on non-cognitive skills, which suggests that teachers recourse to different techniques to improve pupils' cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Finally, I find that teachers' effects on pupils' non-cognitive skills have long-run impacts on adult outcomes such as higher education attendance, employment and earnings, conditional on their effects on test scores. This result indicates that long-run outcomes are improved by a combination of teachers increasing pupils' test scores and non-cognitive skills and has large policy implications.
Descriptors: Scores, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Skills, Elementary School Teachers, Value Added Models, Student Development, Educational Practices, Parent Surveys, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Outcomes of Education, Academic Ability, Teacher Role, Family Characteristics, Thinking Skills, Predictive Validity, College Bound Students, Salary Wage Differentials, Sustainability, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education; High Schools
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging (DHHS/NIH); John Templeton Foundation; What Works Centre for Wellbeing (United Kingdom)
Authoring Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom), Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
Grant or Contract Numbers: R01AG0400640