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What's in a teacher test? Assessing the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student STEM achievement and course-taking

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  • Goldhaber, Dan
  • Gratz, Trevor
  • Theobald, Roddy

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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 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.

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  • Goldhaber, Dan & Gratz, Trevor & Theobald, Roddy, 2017. "What's in a teacher test? Assessing the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student STEM achievement and course-taking," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 112-129.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:61:y:2017:i:c:p:112-129
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.09.002
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    1. Atsushi Inoue & Ryuichi Tanaka, 2023. "Do teachers’ college majors affect students’ academic achievement in the sciences? A cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(5), pages 617-631, September.
    2. Patrícia Martinková & Dan Goldhaber & Elena Erosheva, 2018. "Disparities in ratings of internal and external applicants: A case for model-based inter-rater reliability," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(10), pages 1-17, October.
    3. Araujo, Maria Daniela & Heineck, Guido & Cruz Aguayo, Yyannu, 2020. "Does Test-Based Teacher Recruitment Work in the Developing World? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador," IZA Discussion Papers 13830, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Goldhaber, Dan & Krieg, John & Theobald, Roddy, 2020. "Effective like me? Does having a more productive mentor improve the productivity of mentees?," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).

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