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C Kirabo Jackson gives Ed Policy Seminar on 10614
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Dr. C. Kirabo Jackson from Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University completed a talk on entitled Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina on Monday October 6th, 2014 for the Ed Policy Seminar Series sponsored by EdPolicyWorks. • Talk Abstract: This paper presents a model where teacher effects on long-run outcomes reflect effects on both cognitive skills (measured by test-scores) and non-cognitive skills (measured by non-test-score outcomes). In administrative data, teachers have causal effects on test-scores and student absences, suspensions, grades, and on-time grade progression. Teacher effects on a weighted average of these non-test score outcomes (a proxy for non-cognitive skills) predict teacher effects on dropout, high-school completion, and college-entrance-exam taking above and beyond their effects on test scores. Accordingly, test-score effects alone fail to identify excellent teachers and may understate the importance of teachers for longer-run outcomes. • Presenter Bio: Dr. C. Kirabo Jackson is Associate Professor at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, and is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His research interests span the fields of labor economics, public finance, and applied econometrics, with a focus on the economics of education. Much of his research has focused on the role of teachers in the K-12 system. His work has appeared in economics journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Journal, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics. His research has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, and USA Today. • EdPolicyWorks is a joint collaboration between the Curry School of Education and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. EdPolicyWorks brings together researchers from across the University of Virginia and the State to focus on important questions of educational policy and the implications for the workforce. • --- • For more information the Ed Policy Seminar Series, please visit: • http://curry.virginia.edu/EdPolicyWor... • For more information on EdPolicyWorks, please visit: • http://curry.virginia.edu/EdPolicyWorks
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