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The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence From Panel Data (2003)
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@MISC{Rockoff03theimpact,
author = {Jonah E. Rockoff and Christopher Jencks and Adam Looney},
title = {The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence From Panel Data},
year = {2003}
}
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Abstract
Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little ev-idence that teachers ’ credentials matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers ’ characteristics–both observ-able and unobservable–it is essential to identify teacher fixed effects. Unlike previous studies, I use panel data to estimate teacher fixed effects while control-ling for fixed student characteristics and classroom specific variables. I find large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises reading and math test scores by approximately.20 and.24 standard deviations, respectively, on a nationally standardized scale. In addition, teaching experience has statistically significant positive effects on reading test scores, controlling for fixed teacher quality.
Keyphrases
student achievement panel data individual teacher teacher quality significant difference teacher credential matter teacher characteristic previous study significant positive effect math test score little ev-idence standard deviation increase fixed student characteristic test score standard deviation classroom specific variable
