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Direct linkTran, Long; Gershenson, Seth – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
Student attendance is both a critical input and intermediate output of the education production function. However, the malleable classroom-level determinants of student attendance are poorly understood. We estimate the causal effect of class size, class composition, and observable teacher qualifications on student attendance by leveraging the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Computation, Class Size, Classes (Groups of Students)
Rodriguez, Luis A.; Gegenheimer, Karin; Springer, Matthew G. – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
The utility of teacher evaluation depends on meaningful teacher engagement with evaluation processes. However, critics of traditional tenure policies suggest that tenure nullifies teacher engagement with practices to improve performance. This study investigates whether tenured teachers exhibit perceptions that reflect disengagement with evaluation…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Attitudes, School Districts
Download full textHanushek, Eric A.; Rivkin, Steven G. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
Extensive education research on the contribution of teachers to student achievement produces two generally accepted results. First, teacher quality varies substantially as measured by the value added to student achievement or future academic attainment or earnings. Second, variables often used to determine entry into the profession and…
Descriptors: Credentials, Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Teacher Qualifications
Cornett, Lynn – 2001
This report presents data on Tennessee's teaching workforce. There has been a recent increase in the percentage of new, inexperienced teachers hired in Tennessee. While there was no change in teacher turnover in recent years, the loss of new teachers became more serious throughout the 1990s. Lack of teacher and administrator diversity remained a…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Diversity (Faculty), Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends
Thomas, Constance D.; And Others – 1989
A study was conducted to identify areas of teacher and program needs in the state of Tennessee in order to plan for the future. Five secondary school systems were selected from each of the seven developmental districts in the state, for a total sample of 35 representative systems. From these 35 systems, 419 (of 587) vocational personnel completed…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Gaumnitz, W. H.; Cook, Katherine M. – 1938
Examined were the educational conditions and efficiency of the school systems during the 1929-30 school year in both the mountainous and nonmountainous counties of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Information was obtained for five counties in each State which were regarded as the most mountainous and five…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Average Daily Attendance, Community Support, Comparative Analysis
