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Publication Date: 2009-Aug
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Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers. NBER Working Paper No. 15202
Jackson, C. Kirabo; Bruegmann, Elias
National Bureau of Economic Research
Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when she has more effective colleagues (based on estimated value-added from an out-of-sample pre-period). Spillovers are strongest for less-experienced teachers and persist over time, and historical peer quality explains away about twenty percent of the own-teacher effect, results that suggest peer learning.
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Scores, Peer Relationship, Coaching (Performance), Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness, Reading Improvement, Mathematics Achievement
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
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IES Cited: ED544269