Making Teaching Last: Long-Run Value-Added / Michael Gilraine, Nolan G. Pope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilraine, Michael.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Pope, Nolan G.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29555.

NBER working paper series no. w29555

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures teachers' contributions that persist by replacing contemporaneous test scores with subsequent test scores in VA estimation. We find that students assigned to high long-run VA teachers fare substantially better in terms of long-term outcomes. Policy simulations indicate that the use of long-run VA improves policy effectiveness by a factor of two compared to traditional VA measures.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2021.