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Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement : An Investigation of Differential Performance on Naep and State Assessments
Jacob, Brian - 2010
This paper explores the phenomenon referred to as test score inflation, which occurs when achievement gains on quot;high-stakesquot; exams outpace improvements on quot;low-stakesquot; tests. The first part of the paper documents the extent to which student performance trends on state assessments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760466
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. And Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
Belley, Philippe - 2011
attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and … generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122465
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High School Graduation in the Context of Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy and Income Inequality : The Last Half Century
Gordon, Nora - 2013
Goldin and Katz (2008) document the key role that the educational attainment of native-born workers in the U.S. has played in determining changing returns to skill and income distribution in the twentieth century, emphasizing the need to understand the forces driving the supply of educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081843
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Pathways to Education : An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2014
Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those entering high school from very poor social-economic backgrounds. The program includes proactive mentoring to each student, daily tutoring, group activities, career counseling, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048107
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Nevertheless She Persisted? Gender Peer Effects in Doctoral Stem Programs
Bostwick, Valerie - 2018
We study the effects of peer gender composition, a proxy for female-friendliness of environment, in STEM doctoral programs on persistence and degree completion. Leveraging unique new data and quasi-random variation in gender composition across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911029
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Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2008
We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772316
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The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion
Jacob, Brian - 2007
Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade in order to allow them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed academically. This practice is highly controversial, with many researchers claiming that it leads to higher dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775792
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Improving the Targeting of Treatment : Evidence from College Remediation
Scott Clayton, Judith - 2012
At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099412
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Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries : Lessons from Rigorous Impact Evaluations
Murnane, Richard J.; Ganimian, Alejandro - 2021
This paper reviews and interprets the evidence from 223 rigorous impact evaluations of educational initiatives conducted in 56 low- and middle-income countries. We consider for inclusion in our review all studies in recent syntheses, which have reached seemingly conflicting conclusions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224998
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School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results, based on both Texas Schools Project (TSP) administrative data and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey (ECLS), differ noticeably from other recent analyses of the black-white...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760578