Teachers Matter
Understanding Teachers' Impact on Student Achievement
ResearchPublished Dec 4, 2019
The author articulates how research suggests that teachers are important to student achievement and how statistical methods can provide valuable but imprecise estimates of teacher effectiveness.
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- Year: 2019
- Pages: 2
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/RR4312
- Document Number: RR-4312
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