Long-term effects of first-grade teachers on students’ achievement: a replication study

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The purpose of this study was to conduct a direct replication of the study of Bressoux and Bianco of 2004 regarding long-term effects of teachers in primary education on language and mathematics achievement of students. They found a short-term effect of the teacher in the same grade, but they did not find a long-term effect of the teacher of the previous grade. Our study replicates this study a decade later, in another country, and with a larger data set. We are specifically interested in the long-term effect of the first-grade teacher. Using a large-scale data set–in which more than 6,000 students were followed–and cross-classified models, we also found a short-term effect of the current teacher, but we did not find any long-term effects of the first-grade teacher 1 year later. Hence, the findings of Bressoux and Bianco were confirmed in this replication study.

Publication year:2018

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