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CALDER Presentation

CALDER at 39th Annual AEFP Conference

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Location:
San Antonio, TX

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Session: 1.01 Teacher Effectiveness and Personnel Decision Making
Room: Conference Room 8, Third Floor

Performance Screens for School Improvement: The Case of Teacher Tenure Reform in New York City
Authors:
SUSANNA LOEB
Stanford University/CALDER
LUKE C. MILLER
University of Virginia/CALDER
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

Assessing Principals’ Assessments: A Closer Look at Subjective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness
Authors:
JASON A. GRISSOM
Vanderbilt University
SUSANNA LOEB
Stanford University/CALDER

Session: 1.07 The Impact of Accountability on Teachers
Room: Conference Room 12, Third Floor

Teacher Academic Ability, Encouraging Long-Term Evidence
Authors:
ANDREW MCEACHIN
North Carolina State University
SUSANNA LOEB
Stanford University/CALDER
HAMILTON LANKFORD
State University of New York Albany/CALDER
LUKE C. MILLER
University of Virginia/CALDER
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

When Incentives Matter Too Much: Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information
Authors:
TOM AHN
University of Kentucky
JACOB VIGDOR
Duke University/CALDER

Teacher-Level Responses to High-Stakes Testing: Examining the Prevalence and Predictors of Teaching to the Test
Authors:
MICHAEL HANSEN
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
UMUT OZEK
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
THOMAS GONZALEZ
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

First General Session
Room: Salon M, Third Floor

Presidential Address
JANE HANNAWAY
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Session: 2.01 The Market for Schooling: How Families Choose Schools
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

Going to Great Lengths: Parental Choice and New Orleans Public Schools Before and After Katrina
Authors:
DOUGLAS N. HARRIS
Tulane University/CALDER
MATTHEW LARSEN
Tulane University
JILL ZIMMERMAN
Louisiana Department of Education

About What and From Whom? How the Provision of School Quality Information Affects Choosers' Attitudes, Behaviors, and Outcomes
Authors:
JON VALIANT
Stanford University
SUSANNA LOEB
Stanford University/CALDER

Session: 2.02 Educator Pensions
Room: Conference Room 2, Third Floor

Pension Choices and the Sorting Patterns of Public School Teachers
Authors:
DAN GOLDHABER
University of Washington/CALDER
CYRUS GROUT
University of Washington

How Well Do Teacher Pension Plans Work for Charter and Urban School Teachers?
Authors:
MICHAEL PODGURSKY
University of Missouri-Columbia/CALDER
CORY KOEDEL
University of Missouri-Columbia/CALDER
SHAWN NI
University of Missouri-Columbia
P. BRETT XIANG
University of Missouri-Columbia

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Session: 3.04 Policy Considerations in the Implementation of Multiple Measure Teacher Evaluation Systems
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

Policy Considerations in the Implementation of Multiple Measure Teacher Evaluation Systems
Authors:
RYAN BALCH
Baltimore City Schools
CORY KOEDEL
University of Missouri-Columbia/CALDER

Session: 3.07 Teacher Quality: How Do Different Measures Compare?
Room: Conference Room 12, Third Floor

Is a Good Teacher Always Good: Assessing the Effectiveness of Teachers Across Math and Reading
Authors:
DAN GOLDHABER
University of Washington-Bothell/CALDER
JAMES COWEN
Center for Education & Data

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Session: 4.01 Compensation Reforms and Teacher Retention
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

Financial Incentives to Promote Teacher Retention: An Exploratory Study of the Florida Critical Teacher Shortage Program
Authors:
LI FENG
Texas State University/CALDER
TIM SASS
Georgia State University/CALDER

Session: 4.08 Community College Degrees and Transfers
Room: Conference Room 6, Third Floor

America's College Drop-Out Epidemic: Understanding the College Drop-Out Population
Authors:
ERIN DUNLOP VELEZ
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Session: 5.01 Teacher Effectiveness
Room: Conference Room 14, Third Floor

Public School Teacher Mobility: Application of the Bayesian Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimator
Authors:
LI FENG
Texas State University/CALDER
JAMES LESAGE
Texas State University

Session: 5.04 The Effects of Teachers' Union and Collective Bargaining
Room: Conference Room 7, Third Floor

Inconvenient Truth? Do Collective Bargaining Agreements Help Explain the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers Within School Districts?
Authors:
DAN GOLDHABER
University of Washington-Bothell/CALDER
LESLEY LAVERY
Macalester College
RODDY THEOBALD
University of Washington

Using Teacher Value-Added Estimates to Test the Relationship between Collective Bargaining Agreements and the “Teacher Quality Gap"
Authors:
LI FENG
Texas State University/CALDER
LORA COHEN-VOGEL
UNC - Chapel Hill
LA'TARA OSBORNE-LAMPKIN
Florida State University

Session: 5.07 School Reform
Room: Conference Room 10, Third Floor

Inconvenient Truth? Do Collective Bargaining Agreements Help Explain the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers Within School Districts?
Authors:
CHRISTINA LICALSI LABELLE
Northwestern University
DAVID FIGLIO
Northwestern University/CALDER

Session: 5.08 Community College Degrees and Transfers
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

Community College Transfer Students: How They Choose Four-Year Colleges and Does It Matter?
Authors:
BEN BACKES
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
ERIN DUNLOP VELEZ
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

Session: 5.11 The Influence of Schools on Neighborhoods
Room: Conference Room 15, Third Floor

The End of School Desegregation: Its Impact on Residential Segregation
Authors:
SUN JUNG OH
Syracuse University
ROBERT BIFULCO
Syracuse University/CALDER

1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Session: 6.01 Equity of Effective Teaching
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Inequity of Teacher Characteristics and Measured Performance Across Students
Authors:
DAN GOLDHABER
University of Washington-Bothell/CALDER
LESLEY LAVERY
Macalester College
RODDY THEOBALD
University of Washington-Bothell

Teacher Churning and Student Achievement
Authors:
ALLISON ATTEBERRY
University of Virginia
SUSANNA LOEB
Stanford University/CALDER
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

Session: 6.07 The Role of Aid and Returns to Community College Completion
Room: Conference Room 9, Third Floor

Way Station or Launching Pad? Unpacking the Returns to Postsecondary Adult Education in Tennessee
Authors:
CELESTE K. CARRUTHERS
University of Tennessee/CALDER
THOMAS SANFORD
St. Cloud State University

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Session: 7.01 Managing the Teacher Workforce in the District of Columbia
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

The Stages of Hiring: Evidence from Rich Data on Applicants, Interviewees, and New Teachers
Authors:
RACHEL ROSEN
University of Michigan
BRIAN A. JACOB
University of Michigan
BENJAMIN LINDY
Teach for America
JONAH ROCKOFF
Columbia University/CALDER
ERIC TAYLOR
Stanford University

Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance
Authors:
THOMAS DEE
Stanford University
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

Session: 7.02 Society and Schools
Room: Conference Room 3, Third Floor

Immigrants in Public Education: A Closer Look at Intergenerational Differences
Authors:
UMUT OZEK
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
DAVID FIGLIO
Northwestern University/CALDER

Session: 7.03 Value-Added Methodologies and Teacher Effectiveness
Room: Conference Room 7, Third Floor

Learning that Lasts: Unpacking Variation in Teachers' Effects on Students' Long-Term Knowledge
Authors:
BENJAMIN MASTER
Stanford University
SUSANNA LOEB
Stanford University/CALDER
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

Session: 7.07 For-Profit Colleges
Room: Conference Room 10, Third Floor

Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attended For-Profit Colleges? Evidence From a Field Experiment
Authors:
RAJEEV DAROLIA
University of Missouri-Columbia
CORY KOEDEL
University of Missouri-Columbia/CALDER
PACO MARTORELL
RAND Corporation
KATIE WILSON
RAND Corporation

4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Poster Session
Room: Salon F

School Resources and Dropout Rate in Texas
Authors:
BRYCE CASHELL
Texas State University
DAVID POPE
Texas State University
ANDREW SHEPARD
Texas State University
LI FENG
Texas State University/CALDER

The Return to the Net Price of College - Conditional on Quality, Are More Expensive Always Better?
Authors:
ERIN DUNLOP VELEZ
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

SATURDAY, MARCH 15

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Session: 8.03 Market Effects on Higher Education
Room: Conference Room 10, Third Floor

Do Students' College Major Choices Respond to Changes in Wages?
Authors:
MARK LONG
University of Washington
DAN GOLDHABER
University of Washington/CALDER
NICHOLAS KLEIN-HUNTINGTON
University of Washington

Session: 8.05 School Reforms
Room: Conference Room 12, Third Floor

The Distributional Effects of Small Schools
Authors:
STUART TAKIAR JENKINS
Northwestern University
DAVID FIGLIO
Northwestern University/CALDER

Session: 8.07 Teacher Compensation, Training and Measuring Their Added Value
Room: Conference Room 11, Third Floor

The Effects of Performance-Based Compensation: Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF)
Authors:
ALEX SMITH
University of Virginia
THOMAS DEE
Stanford University
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

Teacher Incentive Fund Impacts in Virginia
Authors:
ALLISON ATTEBERRY
University of Virginia
ALEX SMITH
University of Virginia
JAMES WYCKOFF
University of Virginia/CALDER

Session: 8.08 Academic and Economic Outcomes of “Promise” Scholarships
Room: Conference Room 5, Third Floor

Estimating the Effects of Say Yes to Education in Syracuse: An Application of Synthetic Control Methods
Authors:
ROBERT BIFULCO
Syracuse University/CALDER
ROSS RUBENSTEIN
Syracuse University
HOSUNG SOHN
Syracuse University

Is Traditional College Aid Too Little, Too Late? Impacts on High School Outcomes from a Cluster Randomized Trial of a Performance-Based Early College Scholarship
Author:
DOUGLAS N. HARRIS
Tulane University/CALDER

9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Session: 9.07 Health Interventions and Academic Outcomes
Room: Salon L, Third Floor

A Population-Level Study of the Effects of Early Intervention for Autism
Authors:
DAVID FIGLIO
Northwestern University/CALDER
JANET CURRIE
Princeton University
JOSHUA GOODMAN
Harvard University
CLAUDIA PERSICO
Northwestern University
JEFFREY ROTH
University of Florida/CALDER

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Session: 10.01 Teach for America's Impact
Room: Conference Room 7, Third Floor

Examining Spillover Effects from Teach for America Corps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Authors:
BEN BACKES
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
MICHAEL HANSEN
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
VICTORIA BRADY
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
ZEYU XU
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

Session: 10.03 Multiple Outcome Measures in Evaluations of School Choice Programs
Room: Conference Room 8, Third Floor

Do Charter Schools Create a Path to Success in College and Improve Earnings?
Authors:
KEVIN BOOKER
Mathematica Policy Research
TIM SASS
Georgia State University/CALDER
RONALD ZIMMER
Vanderbilt University

Session: 10.09 Teacher Responses to Teacher Evaluation Systems
Room: Conference Room 16, Third Floor

The Efficiency Gains from Using Proportional Evaluations to Shape the Teaching Workforce
Authors:
CORY KOEDEL
University of Missouri-Columbia/CALDER
JIAXI LI
University of Missouri-Columbia

Session: 10.10 Returns to Teaching Experience
Room: Conference Room 12, Third Floor

Community Returns to Teaching Experience: Improving Student Achievement and Motivation in Middle School
Authors:
HELEN LADD
Duke University/CALDER
LUCY SORENSEN
Duke University

Teacher Performance Trajectories in High and Lower-Poverty Schools
Authors:
ZEYU XU
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
UMUT OZEK
American Institutes for Research/CALDER
MICHAEL HANSEN
American Institutes for Research/CALDER

Session: 10.11 Teacher Preparation Pathways and Teacher Labor Market Outcomes
Room: Salon L, Third Floor

Teacher Preparation Pathways and Teacher Labor Market Outcomes
Authors:
DAN GOLDHABER
University of Washington-Bothell/CALDER
JOHN KRIEG
Western Washington University
RODDY THEOBALD
University of Washington-Bothell