کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354710 1434841 2011 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
What's in a rating?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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What's in a rating?
چکیده انگلیسی

We examine the relationship between the formal ratings that principals give teachers and a variety of observable teacher characteristics, including proxies for productivity. Prior work has shown that principals can differentiate between more and less effective teachers, especially at the tails of the quality distribution, and that subjective evaluations of teachers are strongly correlated with subsequent student achievement. However, whereas prior work has relied on survey data, we consider formal ratings from a setting in which the stakes are reasonably high. We find that the ratings are correlated with an array of teacher qualities including experience for young teachers, education credentials, and teacher absenteeism. Our finding that principals reward qualities of teachers known to be related to student productivity provides reason to be optimistic about policies that would assign more weight to principal evaluations of teachers in career decisions and compensation.

Research highlights▶ We examine determinants of the formal ratings that principals give teachers. ▶ Ratings correlate with teacher experience, education credentials and absenteeism. ▶ Principals do not penalize teachers for year-to-year variation in absenteeism.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics of Education Review - Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2011, Pages 434–448
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