Teacher Characteristics And Student Outcomes: A Multiple Regression Analysis
Abstract
This study explores the perceived decline in the quality of American public education during the 1970s and early 1980s. The reports that were issued in 1983 in response to this perception are discussed, with emphasis being placed on one aspect of the reports' suggestions for improving the quality of public education: increasing teacher excellence. Evidence is presented that teachers do make a difference in the educational attainment of their students. Several characteristics of teachers that are expected to be related to student output are analyzed.
Major findings are that the present models do little to explain student achievement. Only one teacher characteristic exhibited a strong relationship to student outcomes: teacher experience. Educational expenditures did have a statistically significant relationship to student outcomes, but the direction of the relationship was ambiguous.
Recent reform proposals, including the career ladder, had no relationship to student outcomes.
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Program year: 1990/1991Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Citation
Dickens, Bryan D. (1991). Teacher Characteristics And Student Outcomes: A Multiple Regression Analysis. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -UnderwoodA _1991.