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Is there a causal effect of high school math on labor market outcomes?

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter (contributor); … - 2006

Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...

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The short-term effectiveness of a remedial mathematics course : evidence from a UK university

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2012

Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...

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The more, the better? : the impact of instructional time on student performance

Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, … - 2016

Although instruction time is an important and costly resource in education production, there is a remarkable scarcity of research examining the effectiveness of its use. We build on the work of Lavy (2015) using the variance of subject-specific instruction time within Switzerland to determine...

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"Teaching to teach" literacy

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2016

significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually … function that affects the technology of teaching. In particular, there was phasing in of intensive support to some schools … intensive support to estimate the effect of the new 'teaching technology' on children's educational attainment. We find there to …

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Intensive math instruction and educational attainment : long-run impacts of double-dose algebra

Cortes, Kalena E.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Nomi, Takako - 2014

We study an intensive math instruction policy that assigned low-skilled 9th graders to an algebra course that doubled instructional time, altered peer composition and emphasized problem solving skills. A regression discontinuity design shows substantial positive impacts of double-dose algebra on...

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Peer effects and textbooks in primary education : evidence from francophone sub-Saharan Africa

Frölich, Markus (contributor); … - 2005

As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...

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The impact of length of the school year on student performance and earnings : evidence from the German short school years

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Online teaching and gender bias

Ayllón, Sara - 2021

I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a … difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more … poorly than in previous semesters. The performance of male lecturers was not impacted by the new teaching environment …

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Career and technical education in high school and postsecondary career pathways in Washington State

Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Daniel D.; Holzer, Harry J.; … - 2020

In this study, we describe the postsecondary transitions of students taking CTE courses in high school using administrative data on one cohort of high school students from Washington State. Our findings indicate that CTE students are less likely to enroll in college overall, especially four-year...

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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced 'University Technical Colleges' (UTCs) in 2010 for...

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