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Publication Date: 2022
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The Effects of Higher-Stakes Teacher Evaluation on Office Disciplinary Referrals
Liebowitz, David D.; Porter, Lorna; Bragg, Dylan
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, v15 n3 p475-509 2022
The effects of imposing accountability pressures on public school teachers are empirically indeterminate. In this paper, we study the effects of accountability in the context of teacher responses to student behavioral infractions in the aftermath of teacher evaluation reforms. We leverage cross-state variation in the timing of state policy implementation to estimate whether teachers change the rate at which they remove students from their classrooms. We find that higher-stakes teacher evaluation had no causal effect on the rates of disciplinary referrals, and we find no evidence of heterogeneous effects for grades subject to greater accountability pressures or in schools facing differing levels of disciplinary infractions. Our results are precisely estimated and robust to a battery of assumption and specification checks.
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Accountability, Teacher Response, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Referral, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Positive Behavior Supports
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Language: English
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