How to Measure a Teacher: The Influence of Test and Nontest Value-Added on Long-Run Student Outcomes

Ben Backes; James Cowan; Dan Goldhaber; Roddy Theobald

doi:10.3368/jhr.1023-13180R2

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How to Measure a Teacher

The Influence of Test and Nontest Value-Added on Long-Run Student Outcomes

Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald

Published online before print September 11, 2024, 1023-13180R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1023-13180R2

Ben Backes

1 Principal Economist in the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at the American Institutes for Research. (bbackes{at}air.org)

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James Cowan

2 Principal Econometrician in CALDER at the American Institutes for Research

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Dan Goldhaber

3 Director of CALDER at the American Institutes for Research. He is also an affiliate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington and the director of the Center for Education Data & Research

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Roddy Theobald

4 Deputy director of CALDER and a Managing Researcher at the American Institutes for Research

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Ben Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, Roddy Theobald

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