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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Goldhaber, Dan; Liddle, Stephanie; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2012
With teacher quality repeatedly cited as the most important "schooling" factor influencing student achievement, there has been increased interest in examining the efficacy of teacher training programs. This paper presents the results of research investigating the relationship between teachers who graduate from different training programs and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Evidence, Mathematics Tests
Goldhaber, Dan; Liddle, Stephanie – Center for Education Data & Research, 2011
With teacher quality repeatedly cited as the most important "schooling" factor influencing student achievement, there has been increased interest in examining the efficacy of teacher training programs. This paper presents research examining the variation between and impact that individual teacher training institutions in Washington State have on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness
Goldhaber, Dan; Goldschmidt, Peter; Sylling, Philip; Tseng, Fannie – Center for Education Data & Research, 2011
This paper reports on findings based on analyses of a unique dataset collected by ACT that includes information on student achievement in a variety of subjects at the high school level, which allow us to examine the relationship between teacher effect estimates derived from VAM specifications employing different student learning assumptions.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Prior Learning, Evidence, Inferences