Researching the Association between Teachers and School Outcomes (Based on TALIS Data and Lower Secondary School Examination Results)

The purpose of this paper is to identify potential links between information about teachers and the academic achievement of schools. Data regarding teachers, collected by TALIS (Teaching and Learning International Survey), is analysed simultaneously with school examination scores. There are some general considerations and conclusions based mostly on the analysis of linear regression coefficients. As the presented relations apply to averaged school characteristics rather than individual characteristics of teachers or students, they should be interpreted with caution, mainly as statistical ones. ‘Teacher’ data from schools do not differ much and do not provide firm grounds for the identification of relations between them and the lower secondary school examination scores- which vary considerably. We should investigate the teacher and student level rather than use averaged school characteristics.

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