A Familiar Face: Student-Teacher Rematches and Student Achievement

NaYoung Hwang, Brian Kisida and Cory Koedel
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NaYoung Hwang: University of Missouri
Brian Kisida: University of Missouri

No 2116, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

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 rematching, student-teacher familiarity; teacher quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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