Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6840829 | Economics of Education Review | 2017 | 55 Pages |
Abstract
We investigate the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student test achievement and high school course-taking. We focus on three subject/grade combinations-middle school math, ninth-grade algebra and geometry, and ninth-grade biology-and find evidence that a teacher's basic skills test scores are modestly predictive of student achievement in middle school math and highly predictive of student achievement in high school biology. A teacher's subject-specific licensure test scores are a consistent and statistically significant predictor of student achievement only in high school biology. Finally, we find little evidence that students assigned to middle school teachers with higher basic-skills test scores are more likely to take advanced math and science courses in high school.
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Authors
Dan Goldhaber, Trevor Gratz, Roddy Theobald,