What's in a Teacher Test? Assessing the Relationship between Teacher Licensure Test Scores and Student STEM Achievement and Course-Taking. CEDR Working Paper. WP #2016-11

Autor/inn/en	Goldhaber, Dan; Gratz, Trevor; Theobald, Roddy
Institution	Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR)
Titel	What's in a Teacher Test? Assessing the Relationship between Teacher Licensure Test Scores and Student STEM Achievement and Course-Taking. CEDR Working Paper. WP #2016-11
Quelle	(2016), (51 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Teacher Certification; Scores; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; High School Students; Course Selection (Students); Middle School Students; Mathematics Instruction; Algebra; Geometry; Biology; Predictor Variables; Middle School Teachers; Teacher Influence; Teacher Competencies; STEM Education; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Statistical Analysis; Teaching Skills; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Course selection; Kurswahl; Middle school; Middle schools; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Geometrie; Biologie; Prädiktor; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrkunst; STEM; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Statistische Analyse; Lehrbefähigung; Lehrkompetenz; Unterrichtsbefähigung
Abstract	We investigate the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student test achievement and high school course-taking. We focus on three subject/grade combinations-- middle school math, ninth-grade algebra and geometry, and ninth-grade biology--and find evidence that a teacher's basic skills test scores are modestly predictive of student achievement in middle and high school math and highly predictive of student achievement in high school biology. A teacher's subject-specific licensure test scores are a consistent and statistically significant predictor of student achievement only in high school biology. Finally, we find little evidence that students assigned to middle school teachers with higher basic-skills test scores are more likely to take advanced math and science courses in high school. (As Provided).
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