What's in a teacher test? Assessing the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student STEM achievement and course-taking

Dan Goldhaber, Trevor Gratz and Roddy Theobald

Economics of Education Review, 2017, vol. 61, issue C, 112-129

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student test achievement and high school course-taking. We focus on three subject/grade combinations—middle school math, ninth-grade algebra and geometry, and ninth-grade biology—and find evidence that a teacher's basic skills test scores are modestly predictive of student achievement in middle school math and highly predictive of student achievement in high school biology. A teacher's subject-specific licensure test scores are a consistent and statistically significant predictor of student achievement only in high school biology. Finally, we find little evidence that students assigned to middle school teachers with higher basic-skills test scores are more likely to take advanced math and science courses in high school.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.09.002

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