Inadequate Teacher Content Knowledge and What to Do About It: Evidence from El Salvador
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- Aymo Brunetti & Konstantin B chel & Martina Jakob & Ben Jann & Daniel Steffen, 2021. "Inadequate Teacher Content Knowledge and What to Do About It: Evidence from El Salvador," Diskussionsschriften dp2114, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft.
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education quality; teacher performance; teacher training; student learning; basic math education; computer-assisted learning;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2022-01-03 (Development)
- NEP-EDU-2022-01-03 (Education)
- NEP-KNM-2022-01-03 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-URE-2022-01-03 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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