Daily Archive for May 22nd, 2007

Professor Andrew Leigh of the Australian National University has reported the results of a study of the relationship between students’ outcomes and which teachers those students have. Professor Leigh examined the test scores for both literacy and numeracy of more than 90,000 students as they progressed through 3rd, 4th, and 5th or 5th, 6th, and 7th grades; he connected those scores to the students’ teachers and determined what part of the changes in students’ outcomes were attributable to the teachers.
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