The Impact of Performance Ratings on Job Satisfaction for Public School Teachers

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 241-278

  Koedel, Cory ^a   Li, Jiaxi ^a   Springer, Matthew G ^b   Tan, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

job satisfaction; personnel evaluation; regression discontinuity; teacher evaluation; teacher quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015943978     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: 19351011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831216687531     Document Type: Article

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