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Title: Teachers and Students’ Postsecondary Outcomes: Testing the Predictive Power of Test and Nontest Teacher Quality Measures

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2022

ISBN: 9772081415

ISSN: 1868-7075

DOI: 10.2/JQUERY.MIN.JS

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PMID: 25246403

Abstract: We examine how different measures of teacher quality are related to students’ long-run trajectories. Comparing teachers’ test-based value-added to nontest value-added – based on contributions to student absences and grades – we find that test and nontest value-added have similar effects on the average quality of colleges that students attend. However, test-based teacher quality measures have more explanatory power for outcomes relevant for students at the top of the achievement distribution such as attending a more selective college, while nontest measures have more explanatory power for whether students graduate from high school and enroll in college at all.

Url: https://caldercenter.org/publications/teachers-and-students’-postsecondary-outcomes-testing-predictive-power-test-and-nontest

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Authors: Backes, Benjamin; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy

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Publication Number: 270-1022

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Pages: 1-59

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

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