Matthew A. Kraft Source Confirmed

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John Brown University

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32 h-index 113 pubs 7,048 cited

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Matthew A. Kraft is an education researcher at John Brown University whose work spans a variety of topics, including parental involvement, school choice, educational assessment, early childhood development, and teacher training. He has recently investigated the impact of teacher working conditions on job satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic and co-authored a blueprint for expanding tutoring and mentoring programs in public schools. Kraft's work also examines broader trends in the teaching profession, including a 2024 study on the evolving prestige, interest, preparation, and satisfaction of teachers over the last half-century. His scholarship includes experimental evaluations of online tutoring programs and critical analyses of effect-size benchmarks in education interventions. Kraft's research is primarily focused on identifying actionable strategies for educational improvement.

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h-index: 32
Publications: 113
Citations: 7,048

Selected Publications

The Effect of Student–Tutor Ratios: Experimental Evidence From a Pilot Online Math Tutoring Program (2025) DOI
The Scaling Dynamics and Causal Effects of a District-Operated Tutoring Program (2025) DOI
The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession: Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction Over the Last Half Century (2024) DOI
Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale: The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment (2024) DOI
Time in School: A Conceptual Framework, Synthesis of the Causal Research, and Empirical Exploration (2024) DOI
The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession: Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction Over the Last Half Century (2024) DOI
Teacher Shortages: A Framework for Understanding and Predicting Vacancies (2024) DOI
How informal mentoring by teachers, counselors, and coaches supports students' long-run academic success (2023) DOI
How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students’ Long-Run Academic Success (2023) DOI
Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale: The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment (2023) DOI
Preferences, Inequities, and Incentives in the Substitute Teacher Labor Market (2022) DOI
Online Tutoring by College Volunteers: Experimental Evidence from a Pilot Program (2022) DOI
A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring and Mentoring Across Public Schools (2021) DOI
Global Mindset Initiative Working Paper 2: Designing an Intervention to Motivate Growth Mindset-Supportive Teaching Practices (2021) DOI
Can Teacher Evaluation Systems Produce High-Quality Feedback? An Administrator Training Field Experiment (2021) DOI