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Measuring and Summarizing the Multiple Dimensions of Teacher Effectiveness

There is an emerging consensus that teachers impact multiple student outcomes, but it remains unclear how to summarize these multiple dimensions of teacher effectiveness into simple metrics that can be used for research or personnel decisions. Here, we discuss the implications of estimating teacher effects in a multidimensional empirical Bayes framework and illustrate how to appropriately use these noisy estimates to assess the dimensionality and predictive power of the true teacher effects. Empirically, our principal components analysis indicates that the multiple dimensions can be efficiently summarized by a small number of measures; for example, one dimension explains over half the variation in the teacher effects on all the dimensions we observe. Summary measures based on the first principal component lead to similar rankings of teachers as summary measures weighting short-term effects by their prediction of long-term outcomes. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of using summary measures of effectiveness and, specifically, how to ensure that the policy implementation is fair when different sets of measures are observed for different teachers.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9263

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Personnel Economics: General
Thema
value-added
teacher effectiveness

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mulhern, Christine
Opper, Isaac M.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mulhern, Christine
  • Opper, Isaac M.
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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