ERIC Number: EJ964342
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Publication Date: 2012-Jun
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The Effect of Teacher-Student Gender Matching: Evidence from OECD Countries
Cho, Insook
Economics of Education Review, v31 n3 p54-67 Jun 2012
While some educators argue that teacher-student gender matching improves student performance, there is little empirical evidence to support this hypothesis. This paper assesses the impact of teacher-student gender matching on academic achievement across fifteen OECD countries using data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). One attractive feature of TIMSS is that it provides information on test scores and teacher characteristics, including gender, for both math and science thereby allowing for student fixed effects estimation. The results provide little support for the conjecture that students benefit from teacher-student gender matching. (Contains 8 tables.)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Sex, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Influence, Teacher Student Relationship, Scores, Mathematics Tests, Science Tests, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
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