The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 486-496

  Metzler, Johannes ^a   Woessmann, Ludger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Peru; Student achievement; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DATA SET; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; KNOWLEDGE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PRIMARY EDUCATION; STUDENT; TEACHING;

PERU;

EID: 84864381979     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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