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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul - 2000
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....
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Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates
Borjas, George J. - 2000
complain that the lack of English language proficiency among many foreign-born Teaching Assistants affects adversely their … understanding of the material. This paper addresses the question that is at the heart of these complaints: Do foreign-born teaching … university. The data suggest that foreign-born Teaching Assistants have an adverse impact on the class performance of …
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Educational Production
Lazear, Edward P. - 1999
their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching …
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Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
Krueger, Alan B. - 1997
This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86 school year: small classes (13-17 students), regular-size classes (22-25 students) teacher's...
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An Extra Year to Learn English? Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners
Figlio, David N. - 2019
In this study, we use microdata from 12 Florida county-level school districts and a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of early grade retention on the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes of English learners. We find that retention in the third-grade substantially improves...
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Long-run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support : Evidence from Pathways to Education
Lavecchia, Adam M. - 2019
We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...
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Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?
Kedagni, Desire - 2019
Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship...
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Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning : Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries
Bando, Rosangela - 2019
This paper uses data from 10 at-scale field experiments in four countries to estimate the effect of inquiry- and problem-based pedagogy (IPP) on students' mathematics and science test scores. IPP creates active problem-solving opportunities in settings that provide meaning to the child. Students...
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The Pandemic's Effect on Demand for Public Schools, Homeschooling, and Private Schools
Musaddiq, Tareena; Stange, Kevin M.; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of U.S. public schools, potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private schools. Using longitudinal student-level administrative data from Michigan and nationally representative data from the...
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Do Differences in Schools' Instruction Time Explain International Achievement Gaps? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
Lavy, Victor - 2010
The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in pupils' academic achievements? In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students' achievement using PISA 2006 data, which includes data samples from over 50...
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