Pulling Back the Curtain ' The Relationship between Teacher Quality and Students' Educational Outcomes and Its Effect on the Communities Issues

Year 2019, Volume: 13, 89 - 108, 31.08.2019

Adel Dagher Fahed Budagher

Abstract

It is
very important to take heed of the following issues in the World of Educations:
The quality of a teacher is the most important schooling factor affecting
student achievement, and educational policy, in turn, has reflected this
assessment, both by allocating substantial resources to improving and by
assessing teacher quality. Yet in spite of this broad consensus, we have yet to
identify which proxies of teacher quality best predict desired outcomes.
Moreover, though there is a growing recognition that the effects of teacher
quality may emerge slowly or be visible only with time, little attention has
been paid to students’ long-term outcomes, such as postsecondary degree
attainment. Therefore, in order to gain a better sense of how different
indicators of teacher quality represent and impact students’ educational
success, this study examines the relationship between two dominant measures of
teacher quality, teacher qualification and teacher effectiveness, in terms of
their influence on students’ short-term academic growth and long-term
educational success (measured by completion of a college degree). Since
students are exposed to teachers of varying quality over the course of their
schooling – and since achievement is closely related to that cumulative
exposure – this study computes cumulative teacher quality indices that are able
to more precisely estimate the impact of teacher quality. Considering how these
common measures of teacher quality are already being incorporated into various
teacher policies, including teacher salary and evaluation, this study will help
develop more coherent and complementary policies regarding teacher quality.
Ultimately, also, this study seeks to inform researchers, educational and
community leaders, and policymakers about the ways in which low-income families
embedded in CDCs access and mobilize educational opportunity.

Keywords

Teacher quality, Educational outcomes

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