"No Child Left Behind" and the effectiveness of professional development programs on students’ performance : evidence from schools in Missouri

Fil: Ajzenman, Nicolás Matías. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.

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Autor principal: Ajzenman, Nicolás Matías
Otros Autores: Galiani, Sebastián
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Publicado: Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía 2014
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spelling I37-R143-10908-25092025-01-20T15:23:02Z "No Child Left Behind" and the effectiveness of professional development programs on students’ performance : evidence from schools in Missouri Ajzenman, Nicolás Matías Galiani, Sebastián United States. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Estados Unidos. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Teachers -- Training of -- Missouri. Education and state -- Missouri. Maestros -- Formación profesional -- Misuri. Educación y Estado -- Misuri. Fil: Ajzenman, Nicolás Matías. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina. Among other reforms, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) included special funding for Professional Development Programs, with the particular objective of enhancing the performance of the neediest schools. In this paper, we evaluate for the first time a state-wide Professional Development program in Elementary and High Schools in the State of Missouri. Using matching and Diff-in-Diff techniques, we find that the Program seemed to have a positive and significant effect in the Math scores (annual standardized tests) for almost all the evaluated grades in the High School level (+2% to 4.7%) during 2011-12. However, no significant effects were found in Math or Science in Primary School. The results are particularly relevant because the NCLB Act clearly establishes automatic mechanisms to punish or reward schools using our outcome as the decision variable. The Professional Development Programs aim to improve the children scores in the standardized tests to fulfill the NCLB requirements. 2014-05-26T15:57:33Z 2014-05-26T15:57:33Z 2013-08 Tesis info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis info:ar-repo/semantics/tesis de maestría info:eu-repo/semantics/updatedVersion Ajzenman, N. M. (2013). "No Child Left Behind" and the effectiveness of professional development programs on students’ performance : evidence from schools in Missouri. [Tesis de maestría, Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía]. Repositorio Digital San Andrés. http://hdl.handle.net/10908/2509 Tesis M. Eco. 80 http://hdl.handle.net/10908/2509 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf application/pdf Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía
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topic United States. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Estados Unidos. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Teachers -- Training of -- Missouri.
Education and state -- Missouri.
Maestros -- Formación profesional -- Misuri.
Educación y Estado -- Misuri.
spellingShingle United States. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Estados Unidos. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Teachers -- Training of -- Missouri.
Education and state -- Missouri.
Maestros -- Formación profesional -- Misuri.
Educación y Estado -- Misuri.
Ajzenman, Nicolás Matías
"No Child Left Behind" and the effectiveness of professional development programs on students’ performance : evidence from schools in Missouri
topic_facet United States. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Estados Unidos. -- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Teachers -- Training of -- Missouri.
Education and state -- Missouri.
Maestros -- Formación profesional -- Misuri.
Educación y Estado -- Misuri.
description Fil: Ajzenman, Nicolás Matías. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina.
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title "No Child Left Behind" and the effectiveness of professional development programs on students’ performance : evidence from schools in Missouri
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