Assessing Rothstein's critique of teacher value-added models

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 333-362

  Kinsler, Josh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Model testing; Teacher value added

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879917717     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE132     Document Type: Article

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