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Chapter 8. School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 383-421). 2011
School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures …—is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States, accountability has become a centerpiece of both Democratic and … Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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Education Economics from a Historical Perspective
Schüler, Ruth Maria - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
School accountability--the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures …--is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States, accountability has become a centerpiece of both Democratic and … Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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Test-based accountability and educational equity : breaking through local district politics?
Gregg, John J.; Lavertu, Stéphane - In: Economics of education review 97 (2023), pp. 1-19
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Do politicians shirk when reelection is certain? Evidence from the German parliament
Bernecker, Andreas - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 55-70
Does stiffer electoral competition reduce political shirking? For a micro-analysis of this question, I construct a new data set spanning the years 2005 to 2012 covering biographical and political information about German Members of Parliament (MPs), including their attendance rates in voting...
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School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system
Elacqua, Gregory; Mat’as Martinez; Santos, Humberto; … - In: Estudios de Economia 39, 2 Year 2012, pp. 179-202
In this paper, we analyze the schooling alternatives of families that could face school closure. This article identifies, characterizes, and georeferences the institutions classified as low-performing by the SEP Law along with their closest alternatives. The findings indicate that a significant...
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Mass media and public education: The effects of access to community radio in Benin
Keefer, Philip; Khemani, Stuti - In: Journal of Development Economics 109 (2014) C, pp. 57-72
Prior research on mass media and government accountability has not examined the effects of citizen media access on …
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Fostering Creativity, Collaboration, and Accountability in the Online Classroom
Kutaka-Kennedy, Joy - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Online learning is expanding at an exponential rate, with more than one third of all higher education students taking at least one course online (Allen & Seaman, 2011). However, dropout rates for online courses are 10-20% higher than for traditional, face-to-face courses (Carr, 2000). Many...
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Information asymmetry and equilibrium monitoring in education
Ferreyra, Maria Marta; Liang, Pierre Jinghong - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 1, pp. 237-254
We develop a theoretical and computational model of school choice and achievement that embeds information asymmetries in the provision of education. Because school effort is unobservable to households and policymakers, schools have an incentive to under provide effort. This moral hazard affects...
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