The Effects of Higher-Stakes Teacher Evaluation on Office Disciplinary Referrals.
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| Title: | The Effects of Higher-Stakes Teacher Evaluation on Office Disciplinary Referrals. |
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| Authors: | Liebowitz, David D.1 (AUTHOR), Porter, Lorna1 (AUTHOR), Bragg, Dylan2 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Jul-Sep2022, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p475-509. 35p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Teacher evaluation, *Public school teachers, *School rankings, *Educational accountability |
| Abstract: | The effects of imposing accountability pressures on public school teachers are empirically indeterminate. In this paper, we study the effects of accountability in the context of teacher responses to student behavioral infractions in the aftermath of teacher evaluation reforms. We leverage cross-state variation in the timing of state policy implementation to estimate whether teachers change the rate at which they remove students from their classrooms. We find that higher-stakes teacher evaluation had no causal effect on the rates of disciplinary referrals, and we find no evidence of heterogeneous effects for grades subject to greater accountability pressures or in schools facing differing levels of disciplinary infractions. Our results are precisely estimated and robust to a battery of assumption and specification checks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | The effects of imposing accountability pressures on public school teachers are empirically indeterminate. In this paper, we study the effects of accountability in the context of teacher responses to student behavioral infractions in the aftermath of teacher evaluation reforms. We leverage cross-state variation in the timing of state policy implementation to estimate whether teachers change the rate at which they remove students from their classrooms. We find that higher-stakes teacher evaluation had no causal effect on the rates of disciplinary referrals, and we find no evidence of heterogeneous effects for grades subject to greater accountability pressures or in schools facing differing levels of disciplinary infractions. Our results are precisely estimated and robust to a battery of assumption and specification checks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 19345747 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19345747.2021.2015496 |
