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Risky Business? An Analysis Of Teacher Characteristics And Compensation Preferences, Daniel Henry Bowen
Risky Business? An Analysis Of Teacher Characteristics And Compensation Preferences, Daniel Henry Bowen
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Teacher quality has a significant impact on both student learning gains and later life outcomes. With this is mind, policymakers implement reforms to attract and retain more effective educators. A major obstacle for designing these policies is that the ingredients for training, as well as initially identifying, effective teachers remain largely a mystery. However, there are strong theoretical arguments for certain education policy reforms producing improvements in the quality of the teacher workforce. One increasingly popular example is performance-based pay. Performance pay has the potential to better align teachers' incentives to produce increases in student achievement. Paying teachers based on …
Do Teacher Characteristics Affect Student Achievement? Evidence From A Rural State, James V. Shuls
Do Teacher Characteristics Affect Student Achievement? Evidence From A Rural State, James V. Shuls
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Using a unique dataset, this dissertation analyzes the relationship between observable teacher characteristics and teacher effectiveness. Effectiveness is measured as a teacher's ability to improve student achievement on a standardized test. This analysis focuses on teachers of math and science at the elementary and middle school levels, as well as teachers of algebra, geometry, and 11th grade English language arts. The sample is drawn from Arkansas, a state that has a much more rural population than other states and cities where this type of analysis has been conducted in the past. For the analysis I am unable to link teachers …