Teacher Effects on Complex Cognitive Skills and Social-Emotional Competencies

Matthew Kraft

Journal of Human Resources, 2019, vol. 54, issue 1, 1-36

Abstract: I exploit the random assignment of class rosters in the MET Project to estimate teacher effects on students’ performance on complex open-ended tasks in math and reading, as well as their growth mindset, grit, and effort in class. I find large teacher effects across this expanded set of outcomes, but weak relationships between these effects and performance measures used in current teacher evaluation systems including value-added to state standardized tests. These findings suggest teacher effectiveness is multidimensional, and high-stakes evaluation decisions are only weakly informed by the degree to which teachers are developing students’ complex cognitive skills and social-emotional competencies.

JEL-codes: H0 I2 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.54.1.0916.8265R3
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