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Teachers’ Labor Market Responses to Performance Evaluation Reform: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools

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  • Lauren Sartain
  • Matthew P. Steinberg

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Traditional teacher evaluation systems have come under scrutiny for not identifying, supporting, and, if necessary, removing low-performing teachers from the classroom. Leveraging the experimental rollout of a pilot evaluation system in Chicago, we find that, while there was no main effect of the pilot on teacher exit, the pilot system increased exit for low-rated and nontenured teachers. Furthermore, teachers who exited were lower performing than those who stayed and those who replaced them. These findings suggest that reformed evaluation systems can induce low-performing teachers to exit schools and may also improve the overall quality of the teacher labor force.

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  • Lauren Sartain & Matthew P. Steinberg, 2016. "Teachers’ Labor Market Responses to Performance Evaluation Reform: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 51(3), pages 615-655.
  • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:51:y:2016:i:3:p:615-655
    Note: DOI: doi:10.3368/jhr.51.3.0514-6390R1
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