Teacher Peer Observation and Student Test Scores: Evidence from a Field Experiment in English Secondary Schools
Year: 2020
Type: article
Study designs: Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial
Abstract: This paper reports on a field experiment in 82 high schools trialing a low-cost intervention in schools’ operations: teachers working in the same school observed and scored each other’s teaching. Students in treatment schools scored 0.07 student standard deviations higher on math and English exams. Teachers were further randomly assigned to roles—observer and observee—and students of both types benefited, observers’ students perhaps more so. Doubling the number of observations produced no difference in student outcomes. Treatment effects were larger for otherwise low-performing teachers.
Source: Journal of Labor Economics
DOI: 10.1086/712997
Authors: Simon Burgess, Shenila Rawal, Eric S. Taylor
Institutions: University of Bristol, Harvard University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2978680278