Linking Teacher Quality, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement

By S. Gershenson. Education Finance and Policy, 2016

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Research on the effectiveness of educational inputs, particularly research on teacher effectiveness, typically overlooks teachers’ potential impact on behavioral outcomes, such as student attendance. Using longitudinal data on teachers and students in North Carolina I estimate teacher effects on primary school student absences in a value-added framework. The analysis yields two main findings: First, teachers have arguably causal, statistically significant effects on student absences that persist over time. Second, teachers who improve test scores do not necessarily improve student attendance, suggesting that effective teaching is multidimensional and teachers who are effective in one domain are not necessarily effective in others.

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Teacher Effects on Complex Cognitive Skills and Social-Emotional Competencies (2017, background): “The study tracked approximately 3,000 teachers from across six large public school districts over the 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 school years.4 These districts included the CharlotteMecklenburg Schools, Dallas Independent Schools, Denver Public Schools, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Memphis Publi”
The Effects of Teacher Match on Students’ Academic Perceptions and Attitudes (2017, background): “A growing body of evidence finds that teachers have measurable impacts on these types of outcomes (Blazar & Kraft, 2015; Gershenson, 2016; Jackson, 2012; Kraft & Grace, 2016).”
Students’ willingness to attend EFL classes with respect to teachers’ credibility, stroke, and success: A cross-cultural study of Iranian and Iraqi students’ perceptions (2021, background): “On this subject, Gershenson (2016) maintained that instructors could have a noteworthy impact on students’ truancy rate.”
What's in a teacher test? Assessing the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student STEM achievement and course-taking (2016, unknown): “outcomes independent of their impacts on student achievement (e.g., Blazar & Kraft, 2016; Gershenson, 2016; Jackson, 2012; Petek & Pope, 2016), so teachers may similarly have a direct effect on the future STEM interest of their students.”
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences (2021, background): “…are highly malleable to the influence of teachers, school-based interventions, students’ household circumstances, and daily shocks to the cost of attending school (Currie et al., 2009; Gershenson, 2016; Goodman, 2014; Gottfried and Hutt, 2019; Liu and Loeb, forthcoming; Tran and Gershenson, 2018).”