Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I
Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23340577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raj Chetty (0000-0002-7868-4647, Harvard University, Littauer Center 226, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: )), John N Friedman (Harvard University, Taubman Center 356, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: )), Jonah E Rockoff (Columbia University, Uris 603, New York, NY 10027 (e-mail: )) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 2593-2632 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8282 • E-ISSN: 1944-7981 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/aer.104.9.2593 |
| OpenAlex | W1984288743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 233 |
| References cited | 21 |
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 a quasi-experimental design based on changes in teaching staff. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that VA models which control for a student's prior test scores provide unbiased forecasts of teachers' impacts on student achievement. (JEL H75, I21, J24, J45)
Academic achievement · Actuarial science · Control (management) · Econometrics · Economics · Management · Mathematics education · Measure (data warehouse) · Operations management · Physics · Quality (philosophy) · School district · Statistics · Student achievement · Teacher Quality · Test (biology) · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Higher Education Research Studies · Innovations in Educational Methods · Mathematics · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
Does Distance Education in the Developing Context Need More Research? Building Practice into Theory (Volume Two)
Using Administrative Data for Social Science and Policy
The Big (Data) Bang
Evaluating the validity evidence surrounding use of value-added models to evaluate teachers
Student learning and teacher retention for graduates of Texas Noyce programs
Emergency certified teachers’ motivations for entering the teaching profession
The Effects of Teacher-Student Demographic Matching on Social-Emotional Learning
Assessing teacher quality in India
Performance Standards and Employee Effort
Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non–Test Score Outcomes
Estimating classroom-level influences on literacy and numeracy
The elite exclusion
Interest Groups, the Courts, and Educational Equality
Adolescents' attitudes to risk and their employment sector choices in adulthood
Calidad, cobertura y costos ocultos de la educación secundaria pública y privada en Colombia
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II
Designing Effective Teacher Performance Pay Programs
Assessing the effect of school days and absences on test score performance
Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status
The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers
Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Implicit Stereotypes
Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Value-added modeling
Representation in the classroom
Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students’ Attitudes and Behaviors
Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Linking Teacher Quality, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement
Property Rights, Land Misallocation, and Agricultural Efficiency in China
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II
Identifying the characteristics of effective teacher professional development
The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work
Productivity returns to experience in the teacher labor market
Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten
Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes
The productivity of public and private preschools (and schools)
The urban–rural education gap
Bureaucrat Allocation in the Public Sector
Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement
The Design of Teacher Assignment
Skewed aspirations
Measuring the output reduction due to incentive ratcheting in the field
Teacher Value-Added in the Absence of Annual Test Scores
Compensating for academic loss
Teachers in Rural China Tend to Leave
Initial Employment Choices of Secondary STEM Teachers
The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes
Challenges and validation in estimating teacher value-added in English secondary schools
Classroom Composition Affects Teacher Performance Ratings
From the Frying Pan to the Fire
Organizational conditions and teacher turnover in private schools of United Arab Emirates
Teacher educators fidelity with the philosophical principles of teacher education
Validity of student evaluation of teaching in higher education
Observing secondary school teachers’ effective teaching behavior in the Netherlands, England, and the United States using the Icalt observation instrument
Quality Teaching
Impact of Contextual Predictors on Value-Added Teacher Effectiveness Estimates
A Partial Identification Approach to Identifying the Determinants of Human Capital Accumulation
The Service of Education. Reconceptualising Teaching Quality and Its Measurement in Higher Education
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Massachusetts Candidate Assessment of Performance
Do teachers compensate for or compound disparities in academic achievement
Judge Effects, Case Characteristics, and Plea Bargaining
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance
The Impact of Religious Diversity on Students’ Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores
Short, Heavy and Underrated? Teacher Assessment Biases by Children's Body Size
Teacher Bias and Evaluation Differences in Test Scores
Effectiveness of interactive satellite-transmitted instruction
Good or bad? Understanding the effects over time of multigrading on child achievement
The effects of performance-based school closure and restart on student performance
Boys lag behind
Tackling the gender gap in mathematics with active learning methodologies
The signaling value of university rankings
Teacher value-added and gender gaps in educational outcomes
Can conditional grants attract better students? Evidence from Chinese teachers’ colleges
Home broadband and human capital formation
How do public schools respond to competition? Evidence from a charter school expansion
Let's stay together
The peer effect of persistence on student achievement
Girls to the front
Four years of pandemic-era emergency licenses
Teachers’ use of class time and student achievement
Sorting it Out
Disparate teacher effects, comparative advantage, and match quality
Inequality and within-school student-teacher assignment patterns
Instruction time and student achievement
Teacher relationship skills and student learning
Understanding the response to financial and non-financial incentives in education
The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes
Time investment responses of parents and students to school inputs
Teacher Turnover and Financial Incentives in Underprivileged Schools
Putting Performance Pay to the Test
Exploring the Links Between Student and Classmate Chronic Absenteeism
Value-Added Model (VAM) Scholars on Using VAMs for Teacher Evaluation After the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act
Beyond the average effect of the innovation subsidies
Teachers' Performance and Turnover Intentions
Conceptual evolution and methodological challenges of value-added in educational assessment
The Effect of Constitutional Gender Equality Clauses
What does certification tell us about teacher effectiveness? Evidence from New York City
Teachers and Student Achievement in the Chicago Public High Schools
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II
The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement
Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting, and Teacher Quality
Teacher Quality in Educational Production
Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
Where is the land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Robust Inference With Multiway Clustering
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School
| Unique citing works | 233 |
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| Citations per year | 19,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 218 |