Eric S Taylor

Biographic Data

ID8880397
NAMEEric S Taylor
GIVEN NAMESEric S
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR E S
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Measuring returns to experience using supervisor ratings of observed performance: The case of classroom teachers

    Open AccessCourtney Bell, Jessalynn James et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2024References: 3

    We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference‐in‐differences strategies: the two‐way fixed effects estimator common in the literature, and an alternative which avoids potential bias arising from effect heterogeneity.…

  • Teachers’ use of class time and student achievement

    Open AccessStephen Burge, Shenila Rawal et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2023

  • Does Evaluation Change Teacher Effort and Performance? Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Policy of Retesting Students

    Esteban Aucejo, Teresa Romano et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2022

    We document measurable, lasting gains in student achievement caused by a change in teachers' evaluation incentives. A short-lived rule created a discontinuity in teachers' incentives when allocating effort across their assigned students: students who failed an initial end-of-year test were retested a few weeks later, and then only the higher of the two scores was used when calculating the teacher's evaluation score. One year later, long after the…

  • Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools

    Stephen Burge, Shenila Rawal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2021

    This paper reports on a field experiment in 82 high schools trialing a low-cost intervention in schools’ operations: teachers working in the same school observed and scored each other’s teaching. Students in treatment schools scored 0.07 student standard deviations higher on math and English exams. Teachers were further randomly assigned to roles—observer and observee—and students of both types benefited, observers’ students perhaps more so. Doub…

  • Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success

    Eric Bettinger, Eric P Bettinger et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2017

    Online college courses are a rapidly expanding feature of higher education, yet little research identifies their effects relative to traditional in-person classes. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that taking a course online, instead of in-person, reduces student success and progress in college. Grades are lower both for the course taken online and in future courses. Students are less likely to remain enrolled at the university. …

  • The Effect of Evaluation on Teacher Performance

    Eric S Taylor, John H TylerARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2012

    Teacher performance evaluation has become a dominant theme in school reform efforts. Yet, whether evaluation changes the performance of teachers, the focus of this paper, is unknown. Instead, evaluation has largely been studied as an input to selective dismissal decisions. We study mid-career teachers for whom we observe an objective measure of productivity—value-added to student achievement—before, during, and after evaluation. We find teachers …