@techreport{buhl-wiggers_impact_2017, title = {The {Impact} of {Teacher} {Effectiveness} on {Student} {Learning} in {Africa}}, url = {https://www.riseprogramme.org/sites/www.riseprogramme.org/files/inline-files/Buhl-Wiggers%20The%20Impact%20of%20Teacher%20Effectiveness%202017-04-30.pdf}, abstract = {Teaching quality is known to be critical for students’ education and life prospects in developed countries. However, little is known about how teacher quality affects student learning in Africa. This paper presents the first estimates of teacher value-added from an African country, using data from a school-based RCT in northern Uganda. Exploiting the random assignment of students to classrooms within schools, we estimate a lower bound on teacher effects. A 1-SD increase in teacher quality leads to at least a 0.14 SD improvement in student performance on a reading test at the end of the year. Shifting teachers from the 10th to the 90th percentile of quality increases performance by 0.36 SDs –comparable to the most effective education interventions conducted in Africa. Our results also suggest that an increase in teacher quality can make other education interventions more efficient.}, institution = {Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)}, author = {Buhl-Wiggers, Julie and Kerwin, Jason and Smith, Jeffrey and Thornton, Rebecca}, month = apr, year = {2017}, note = {KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:E8NLECM5 2129771:LUER2NXX 2405685:AEMAW5PW 2405685:LSQR8MAH 2447227:8W4XYI4G 2486141:TU36ERQU}, keywords = {C:Uganda, NULP, \_C:Ecuador ECU, \_C:India IND, \_C:Kenya KEN, \_C:Pakistan PAK, \_C:Tanzania TZA, \_C:Uganda UGA, \_C:United States USA, \_\_C:filed:1, \_\_C:scheme:1, \_genre:PR-primary\_research, interesting}, }