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ERIC Number: ED606426
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
Pages: 72
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-
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Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research
Kini, Tara; Podolsky, Anne
Learning Policy Institute
Do teachers continue to improve in their effectiveness as they gain experience in the teaching profession? This paper aims to answer that question by critically reviewing recent literature that analyzes the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes in K-12 public schools in the United States. This report reviews 30 studies published within the last 15 years that analyze the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes in the United States. The goal of this paper is to provide researchers and policymakers with a comprehensive and timely review of this body of work. A renewed look at this research is warranted due to advances in research methods (including the use of teacher and student fixed effects) and data systems that have allowed researchers to more accurately answer this question. Specifically, by including teacher fixed effects in their analyses, researchers have been able to compare a teacher with multiple years of experience to that same teacher when he or she had fewer years of experience. In contrast, older studies often used less precise methods, such as cross-sectional analyses, which compare distinct cohorts of teachers with different experience levels during a single school year. [For the research brief to this report "Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research. Research Brief," see ED606427.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Information Analyses
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: Researchers; Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
Authoring Institution: Learning Policy Institute
Identifiers - Location: Florida; New York; North Carolina; Texas; United States
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Every Student Succeeds Act 2015; No Child Left Behind Act 2001
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A