A familiar face: Student-teacher rematches and student achievement

NaYoung Hwang, Brian Kisida and Cory Koedel

Economics of Education Review, 2021, vol. 85, issue C

Abstract: We use administrative data from Indiana to test whether student-teacher rematches in consecutive years affect student achievement. Using models that control for student and teacher fixed effects, we show that student-teacher rematches increase test scores in math and English Language Arts. The positive effects of rematching are constant over elementary and middle-school grades and more pronounced for historically underserved students. Our findings directly support strategies that aim to keep students and teachers together for longer periods of time during K-12 education. They are also consistent with the broader hypothesis that students benefit from increased student-teacher familiarity.

Keywords: Student-teacher rematches; Student-teacher familiarity; teacher quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102194

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