Over-estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school performance in the Chilean education system

This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school's performance. The study was performed for Chilean educational system, where student distribution is differentiated by schools and teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed...

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Autores principales:	Toledo Román,Gabriela, Valenzuela,Juan Pablo
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2015
Materias:	Teacher attributes sorting school segregation school performance
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description	This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school's performance. The study was performed for Chilean educational system, where student distribution is differentiated by schools and teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed that teacher attributes which favored learning appeared more frequently alongside higher socioeconomic status students. When correcting the bias, results showed that the effects of teacher attributes have been overestimated for the vast majority of characteristics. Nonetheless, attributes such as teaching experience, being a woman, having short-term specific professional training, and having a greater curriculum coverage continued to have positive impacts on the performance of 4th grade students.
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title	Over-estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school performance in the Chilean education system
title_short	Over-estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school performance in the Chilean education system
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Over-estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school performance in the Chilean education system

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