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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

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Nashville: American Economic Association

Journal title

The American economic review, 2014-09, Vol.104 (9), p.2593-2632

Language

English

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Nashville: American Economic Association

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Contents

Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores (value-added) a good measure of their quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value-added (VA) measures provide unbiased estimates of teachers' causal impacts on student achievement. We test for bias in VA using previously unobserved parent characteristics and...

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Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1609166182

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1609166182

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ISSN

0002-8282

E-ISSN

1944-7981

DOI

10.1257/aer.104.9.2593

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