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Education Policy and Teacher Effort
Author(s) -
BALLOU DALE,
PODGURSKY MICHAEL
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1995.tb00358.x
Subject(s) - staffing , autonomy , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , law
The authors analyze the effect of school, student, and teacher characteristics on teacher effort, as measured by homework frequency and time put in at home. Although teacher autonomy and “professionalism” have little effect on effort, teachers' academic backgrounds matter. Teachers who are assigned higher‐achieving students also put in more effort, a response to student ability as well as a consequence of staffing such classes with harder‐working instructors.