Calendrier du 05 juillet 2018
brown bag Travail et Économie Publique
Du 05/07/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
BRIOLE Simon (Paris School of Economics)
Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
écrit avec Co-author: Eric Maurin
In France, secondary school teachers are externally evaluated at regular intervals by senior officers of the national education. These external evaluations have a very direct impact on teachers’ career advancement. Besides, evaluators provide teachers with detailed feedback on the quality of their work. In this paper, we show that the external evaluation of a teacher is followed by a significant increase in the performance of her students. We also provide evidence that student performance in a district is positively affected by an increase in the number of evaluators assigned to this district. Generally speaking, the effects of external evaluation appear to be much stronger for math teachers than for French teachers.