Arbeitspapier
Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools: Evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts
Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools in Sweden's most disadvantaged city districts. The aim of the intervention was to strengthen the teachers' professional development, e.g. through coaching and further training, and thereby enhance student performance. We use a difference-in-differences design and rich register data to estimate effects on several educational outcomes. Our results show a large and statistically significant positive impact on student performance on standardized tests in English language. Estimates for test results in math are also positive and large, but not statistically significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no indication of improvement. An analysis of a survey of pupils supports the idea that the teaching as well as the classroom climate improved due to the intervention. Taken together, the program seems to have generated rather promising results in the short run.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2018:26
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Analysis of Education
Education and Inequality
Education: Government Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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Education
disadvantaged schools
lower secondary school
social back-ground
teachers
professional development
student performance
government policy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hall, Caroline King Barnard
Lundin, Martin
Sibbmark, Kristina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
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Uppsala
- (wann)
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hall, Caroline King Barnard
- Lundin, Martin
- Sibbmark, Kristina
- Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
Entstanden
- 2018
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