Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina

By C. Jackson. 2012

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Teacher Effects on Complex Cognitive Skills and Social-Emotional Competencies (2017, background): “Several studies have found evidence of teacher effects in primary (Gershenson 2016), middle (Ladd and Sorensen, in press), and high school (Jackson 2012; Koedel 2008) on non-test-based outcomes observable in administrative data such as absences, suspensions, grades, grade progression and graduation.”
The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility (2014, unknown): “This insight is the basis for the empirical strategy employed in the recent literature using early behaviors as measures of child attributes (see Heckman et al., 2011; Jackson, 2013; Piatek and Pinger, 2010).”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success (2014, unknown): “This idea is being been pursued in the recent literature (Heckman, Humphries, Urzúa, and Veramendi, 2011; Jackson, 2013).”
Behavioral Economics of Education (2015, background): “Jackson (2013) shows that some teachers are effective at improving students’ cognitive skills while others are effective t improving their “non-cognitive skills”, and that both types of skills are equally important for important adult outcomes income, college attendance, and whether a student is…”
Drug Battles and School Achievement: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro's Favelas (2017, background): “In particular, there is increasing evidence that teachers have impact on abilities that are not measured by test scores but have lasting effects on adult outcomes (Chetty, Friedman, & Rockoff, 2014; Jackson, 2012).”
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes (2015, unknown): “…through innovative application of factor analysis to conventionally collected data (e.g., grade point average, attendance, achievement test scores; C. Jackson, 2012; Kautz & Zanoni, 2014), and contacting students throughout the day to assess their momentary actions, thoughts, and feelings (Wong &…”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions that Improve Character and Cognition (2013, methodology): “Jackson (2013) studies the effect of teachers on student cognition and character.”
What's in a teacher test? Assessing the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student STEM achievement and course-taking (2016, unknown): “Finally, we follow Jackson (2014) and Protik et al. (2013) and estimate models that explicitly control for student tracking within schools by including school-year-grade-track fixed effects.”