TY - JOUR
T1 - What makes an effective teacher? Quasi-experimental evidence
AU - Lavy, Victor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2015.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - I estimate in this article the effect of teaching practices on student achievements. I find that teaching based on the instilment of knowledge and comprehension ('traditional' teaching), and techniques that endow pupils with analytical and critical skills ('modern' teaching) has strong positive effect on test scores. However, a second element of modern teaching, instilment of the capacity for individual study has no effect while transparency, fairness, and feedback in teachers' conduct with their students improve marginally academic performance. Heterogeneity in these effects suggests that it is best to target the two teaching practices differentially to students of different genders and abilities.
AB - I estimate in this article the effect of teaching practices on student achievements. I find that teaching based on the instilment of knowledge and comprehension ('traditional' teaching), and techniques that endow pupils with analytical and critical skills ('modern' teaching) has strong positive effect on test scores. However, a second element of modern teaching, instilment of the capacity for individual study has no effect while transparency, fairness, and feedback in teachers' conduct with their students improve marginally academic performance. Heterogeneity in these effects suggests that it is best to target the two teaching practices differentially to students of different genders and abilities.
KW - Economic development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960830847&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/cesifo/ifv001
DO - 10.1093/cesifo/ifv001
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AN - SCOPUS:84960830847
SN - 1610-241X
VL - 62
SP - 88
EP - 125
JO - CESifo Economic Studies
JF - CESifo Economic Studies
IS - 1
ER -