Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects

By C. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor. 2007

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The Impact of Incentives to Recruit and Retain Teachers in “Hard‐to‐Staff” Subjects (2015, background): “Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor (2010) find that in-subject certification is associated with higher student test scores in high school.”
Does the Match Matter? Exploring Whether Student Teaching Experiences Affect Teacher Effectiveness (2017, background): “22 predictive of future teacher effectiveness (Clotfelter et al., 2010; Goldhaber, 2007).”
The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation (2010, methodology): “…Wolfe (1977), Murnane and Phillips (1981), Ehrenberg and Brewer (1995), 1 Further examples using this between-subject method to identify effects of specific teacher attributes such as gender, ethnicity, and credentials include Ammermüller and Dolton (2006) and Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor (2007).”
The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover (2020, background): “Although the merit of using teacher credentials to proxy for teacher quality is debated (Goldhaber, 2008; Kane et al., 2008), licensure exam scores and certification in the taught subject are also generally correlated with enhanced student learning (Clotfelter et al., 2010; Goldhaber, 2007).”
The Gateway to the Profession: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs Based on Student Achievement. CEDR Working Paper No. 2011-2.0. (2013, background): “Again, consistent with the literature (Boyd et al., 2005; Clotfelter et al., 2007; Rivkin et al., 2005; Rockoff, 2004), we see the largest productivity gains for teachers early in their careers.”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, background): “In this section we describe several research studies examining two skill learning variables, feedback and contextual interference, influential in motor skill learning.”
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School (2010, positive): “…for students in Grades 3–8 has generated a number of studies investigating how teacher credentials affect student achievement in elementary schools (Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor 2006, 2007a, 2007b; Goldhaber and Anthony 2007; Rockoff 2004), much less research has been done at the high school…”
How Does Public Service Motivation Among Teachers Affect Student Performance in Schools (2014, methodology): “The institutional feature that different subjects are taught in the same basic classes allows us to identify teacher effects more clearly than in, e.g., Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor (2010).”
Teacher Career Paths, Teacher Quality, and Persistence in the Classroom: Are Public Schools Keeping Their Best? CEDR Working Paper No. 2010-2.0. (2011, background): “A teacher’s marketability may depend on some traditional teacher quality indicators such as certification, graduate degrees, and teaching experience (Ballou and Podgursky 1997), even though valueadded models of student achievement suggest that some of these indicators poorly predict a teachers’ effe”