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Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics |
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Predicting Teacher Effectiveness: |
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Evidence from New York City |
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Jonah Rockoff will be presenting his scholarship work using six years of data on student test performance to evaluate the effectiveness of certified, uncertified, and alternatively certified teachers in the New York City public schools. On average, he and his co-researchers found that the certification status of a teacher has at most small impacts on student test performance. However, among those with the same certification status, there are large and persistent differences in teacher effectiveness. This evidence suggests that classroom performance during the first two years, rather than certification status, is a more reliable indicator of a teacher's future effectiveness. They also evaluated turnover among teachers with different |
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| certification status, and the impact on student achievement of hiring teachers with predictably high turnover.Given relatively modest estimates of experience differentials, even high turnover groups (such as Teach for America participants) would have to be only slightly more effective in their first year to offset the negative effects of their high exit rates. |
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Dr. Rockoff is an Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business
School. His interests center on local public finance and the economics of education, and his
most recent work examined the determinants of property taxation and expenditure in local
public school districts. He will soon begin research on the extent to which property taxes are
capitalized into property values and the dynamics of capitalization in the housing market.
Rockoff received his B.A. in Economics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in Economics
from Harvard University.
For more information on him, please visit: http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jrockoff/
Day/Time: Friday, March 23rd , Noon—1 pm
Place: Barus Hall, Dewey Conference Room, 2nd Floor
For more information on the Urban Education Policy Program @ Brown, please visit:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/uep_intro.php
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