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Italian students’ performance in the PISA digital test
Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2015
’ competencies as revealed by the CBA are, other things being equal, strongly correlated with those in the paper-based tests …, especially in mathematics, and that the pattern of results is almost the same for both kinds of test. Competencies in problem …
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Value-added measures in Italian high schools: problems and findings
Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2010
Students� competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual school�s effectiveness … competencies over time, i.e. value-added measures. Using the results of an INVALSI survey of high schools, this paper implements … favour of general programs (licei) when looking at the level of competencies tends to vanish (in maths and science) when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599458
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The determinants of teacher mobility. Evidence from a panel of Italian teachers
Barbieri, Gianna; Rossetti, Claudio; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2010
In the Italian system teachers are allocated to schools according to a seniority-based centralized system with no role of individual schools in attracting, selecting and retaining teachers. Largely because of the rather limited pay scale, seniority-based rights to move to a particular school and...
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Dropping the books and working off the books
Cappariello, Rita; Zizza, Roberta - Banca d'Italia - 2009
The paper empirically tests the relationship between underground labour and schooling achievement for Italy; a country ranking badly in both respects when compared to other high-income economies; with a marked duality between North and South. In order to identify underground workers; we exploit...
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Labour market for teachers: Demographic characteristics and allocative mechanisms
Barbieri, Gianna; Cipollone, Piero; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2008
The paper considers the teachers� labour market in Italy. The quality and motivation of teachers are certainly among the determinants of pupils� achievement, but they are difficult to measure, so we examine the composition of the pool of teachers and their behaviour to infer...
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Low skilled immigration and the expansion of private schools
Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Banca d'Italia - 2009
A political-economic model is provided to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the receiving country's education system, in terms of sources of school funding, expenditure per pupil, and type of parents who are more likely to send children to privately funded schools. The education...
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Quality differentials in Italian Universities' freshmen: the case of Medical and Dental Surgery schools
Sestito, Paolo; Tonello, Marco - Banca d'Italia - 2011
The paper compares the quality of Italian Medical schools� freshmen on the basis of the scores obtained in the locally conducted entry exams which are using a common national test frame. The test is quite selective (partly because of the reduced size of the intake yearly allowed): winners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020155
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Human capital for growth: possible steps towards an upgrade of the Italian education system
Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012
The problems of Italy�s education system mostly stem from its modus operandi and interactions with the expectations of families and students. The recent signs of improvement in Italian students� proficiency, plausibly reflecting greater emphasis on rigour, could be reinforced by making...
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The quality of Italian education: a comparison between the international and the national assessments
Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2014
This work verifies the consistency of the results of two surveys of Italian students' proficiency: the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Italy's national assessment (Invalsi), both conducted in 2012. Focusing especially on the common part of the reference student...
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Social Interactions in High School: Lessons from an Earthquake.
Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - Banca d'Italia - 2006
We provide new evidence on the impact of peer effects on the schooling decisions of teenagers. In November 1980 a major earthquake hit Southern Italy. In the aftermath, young men from certain towns were exempted from compulsory military service. We show that the exemption raised high school...
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