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Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
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Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential...
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Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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students per class. Classes that do not reach the minimum number of pupils are organized in multigrade classes. In addition …, we find that pupils in multigrade classrooms obtain worse test scores both in literacy and numeracy standardized tests … compared to comparable pupils in single grade classroom. While the effect is small and not always statistically significant for …
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Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870280
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students per class. Classes that do not reach the minimum number of pupils are organized in multigrade classes. In addition …, we find that pupils in multigrade classrooms obtain worse test scores both in literacy and numeracy standardized tests … compared to comparable pupils in single grade classroom. While the effect is small and not always statistically significant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940847
channels. We also find significant heterogeneity: foreign-born pupils benefit from the greater availability of TV channels …
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