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The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
Schwerdt, Guido - 2011
school attended in grades 3 and 6, respectively. Consistent with recent evidence from other settings, we find that students … confirm that these achievement drops occur in non-urban areas and persist through grade 10, by which time most students have … students' performance trajectories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121868
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Efficiency Potential and Efficiency Variation in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools
Borge, Lars-Erik - 2006
The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is calculated to 14 percent based on a DEA analysis with grades in core subjects (adjusted for student characteristics and family background) as outputs. The analysis of the...
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765255
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Majority Vote on Educational Standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925249
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144901
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
dataset from the four waves of international PISA tests spanning 2000-2009, comprising over one million students in 42 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315949
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316213
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Assessment Drives Learning : The Effect of Central Exit Exams on Curricular Knowledge and Mathematical Literacy
Jürges, Hendrik - 2009
active and tend to be more performance oriented. Students, although showing a better performance, are less motivated in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158652
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Are Non-Eligible Students Affected by Special Education?
Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag - 2013
We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full … compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to misbehaving students. The hypothesis is thus that special education … resources might dampen the negative externalities associated with misbehaving students, and thus work to improve the performance …
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Does a Generous Welfare State Crowd Out Student Achievement? Panel Data Evidence from International Student Tests
Falch, Torberg - 2008
Student achievement has been identified as important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between redistributive government activities and investment in human capital measured by student performance in international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science...
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