Everyone’s Doing It, But What Does Teacher Testing Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness?

By Dan Goldhaber. The Journal of human resources, 2007

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Teacher qualifications and student achievement in urban elementary schools (2009, methodology): “Similarly, the results in Tables 4.5 through 4.7 show that observable teacher characteristics like those used by Clotfelter et al. (2007) and Goldhaber (2007) explain only a small portion of teacher heterogeneity across classrooms.”
Attribution Error and the Quest for Teacher Quality (2010, background): “Some researchers are now focusing on teachers’ test scores rather than their prior course work (Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, & Wycoff, 2008; Clotfelter, Vigdor, & Ladd, 2007; Goldhaber, 2007; Hill, Rowan, & Ball, 2005), but the presumption underlying all of these studies remains the same: Once we”
What's in a teacher test? Assessing the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student STEM achievement and course-taking (2016, unknown): “The midle school effect size is comparable to earlier estimates from the elementary level n Washington State ( Goldhaber et al., 2012 ), while the high school effect sizes are bout twice as large as comparable effect sizes reported in Mansfied (2015).”
The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools (2008, unknown): “However, several recent studies with strong research designs and good data are able to address how various teacher qualifications affect student achievement (Boyd et al., 2006; Clotfleter, Ladd, & Vigdor, 2007; Goldhaber, 2007; Harris & Sass, 2007; Kane, Rockoff, & Staiger, 2007).”
Teachers’ Education and Outcomes: Mapping the Research Terrain (2012, background): “For example, Goldhaber (2007) frames teacher testing as an occupational screening device with specific trade-offs.”
Understanding the Induction of a Science Teacher: The Interaction of Identity and Context (2013, unknown): “Goldhaber (2007), in his ten-year study of all teachers in North Carolina, found that teachers experience the greatest gains in their teaching effectiveness during the early years of teaching.”
Race, Gender, and Teacher Testing: How Informative a Tool Is Teacher Licensure Testing? (2010, methodology): “We test this, similar to Goldhaber (2007), by estimating models restricted to teachers in their first year of teaching.”
Using Performance on the Job to Inform Teacher Tenure Decisions. Brief 10. (2010, background): “Empirical studies have shown that licensure requirements raise the barriers to entry into the teaching profession but often do little to control the overall quality of the workforce (Goldhaber 2007; Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger 2008).”
The Gateway to the Profession: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs Based on Student Achievement. CEDR Working Paper No. 2011-2.0. (2013, methodology): “The suggested citation for this working paper is: Goldhaber, D., Liddle, S. & Theobald, R. (2012). The Gateway to the Profession: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs Based on Student Achievement CEDR Working Paper 2012-4.”
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).”
Making a Difference? The Effects of Teach for America in High School. Working Paper 17. Revised. (2009, methodology): “This allows us to employ statistical methods that attempt to account for the nonrandom nature of student assignments to classes/teachers, which have been shown to lead to biased estimates of the impact of teacher credentials (Clotfelter, Ladd, and Vigdor, 2007a; Goldhaber, 2007).”
Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One? (2008, background): “examinations and teacher effectiveness (e.g., Clotfelter et al. (2006, 2007) and Goldhaber (2007) ,”