Title Information
Title
Engaging Teachers: Measuring the Impact of Teachers on Student Attendance in Secondary School
Name
Name Part
Jing Liu
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Susanna Loeb
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Subject
Topic
value-addedmodels; attendance; non-cognitive outcomes; student long-run success
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
K-12 Education
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Finance
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Program and policy effects
Origin Information
Date Created
2019
Publisher
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Abstract
Teachers’ impact on student long-run success is only partially explained by their contributions to students’ short-run academic performance. For this study, we explore a second dimension of teacher effectiveness by creating measures of teachers’ contributions to student class-attendance. We find systematic variation in teacher effectiveness at reducing unexcused class absences at the middle and high school level. These differences across teachers are as stable as those for student achievement, but teacher effectiveness on attendance only weakly correlates with their effects on achievement. We link these measures of teacher effectiveness to students’ long-run outcomes. A high value-added to attendance teacher has a stronger impact on students’ likelihood of finishing high school than does a high value-added to achievement teacher. Moreover, high value-added to attendance teachers can motivate students to pursue higher academic goals as measured by Advanced Placement course taking. These positive effects are particularly salient for low-achieving and low-attendance students.
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
grey literature
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/sjs7-2d06
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