One Size Fits All? The Effects of Teacher Cognitive and Non-cognitive Abilities on Student

Arbeitspapier

Teachers are increasingly being drawn from the lower parts of the general ability distribution, but it is not clear how this affects student achievement. We track the position of entering teachers in population-wide cognitive and non-cognitive ability distributions using school grades and draft records from Swedish registers. The impact on student achievement caused by the position of teachers in these ability distributions is estimated using matched student-teacher data. On average, teachers’ cognitive and non-cognitive social interactive abilities do not have a positive effect on student performance. However, social interactive ability turns out to be important for low aptitude students, whilst the reverse holds for cognitive abilities. In fact, while high performing students benefit from high cognitive teachers, being matched to such a teacher can even be detrimental to their lower performing peers. Hence, the lower abilities among teachers may hurt some students, whereas others may even benefit. High cognitive and non-cognitive abilities thus need not necessarily translate into teacher quality. Instead, these heterogeneities highlight the importance of the studentteacher matching process.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 779

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Publicly Provided Goods: General ; Analysis of Education ; Particular Labor Markets: General
• Thema: Cognitive and non-cognitive ability ; Teacher quality: Student achievement ; Lehrkräfte ; Kognition ; Soziale Kompetenz ; Schüler ; Bildungsniveau ; Schweden

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Grönqvist, Erik ; Vlachos, Jonas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81443
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ