Organizers:

Kata Mihaly, RAND

Papers:

"When Incentives Matter Too Much: Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information"
Tom Ahn, University of Kentucky
Jacob L. Vigdor, Duke University

"Teacher-Level Responses to High-Stakes Testing: Examining the Prevalence and Predictors of Teaching to the Test"
Michael Hansen, American Institutes for Research
Umut Ozek, American Institutes for Research
Thomas Gonzalez, American Institutes for Research

"Pre-Migration School Quality, Time Spent in the U.S., and the Math Achievement of Immigrant High School Students"
Trey Miller, RAND
Robert Bozick, RAND
Alessandro Malchiodi, RAND

"Is It Teachers or Students? What Explains Grade Level Variation in Observational Measures of Teacher Effectiveness"
Kata Mihaly, RAND
Daniel Mccaffrey, ETS

Discussants:

TBA

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