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Teacher Effectiveness in Urban High Schools
Buddin, Richard; Zamarro, Gema - 2015
This research examines whether teacher licensure test scores and other teacher qualifications affect high school student achievement. The results are based on longitudinal student-level data from Los Angeles. The achievement analysis uses a value-added approach that adjusts for both student and...
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The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice : A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach
Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021
We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggre-gated synthetic control...
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The Effects of Free Secondary School Track Choice : A Disaggregated Synthetic Control Approach
Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021
We exploit a recent state-level reform in Germany that granted parents the right to decide on the highest secondary school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to informational. Applying a disaggregated synthetic control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246908
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Achievement Gains from Attendance at Selective High Schools
Houng, Brendan - 2018
Selective high schools are a polarizing topic in education policy, despite only having a small presence in some Australian states. These schools perform exceptionally well when their students' educational and career outcomes are considered, but this is perhaps unsurprising because admission is...
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Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms
Schoner, Florian; Mergele, Lukas; Zierow, Larissa - 2021
Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states...
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Peer effects and educational achievement: evidence of causal effectsusing age at school entry as exogenous variation for Peer quality
Raposo, Isabel Pessoa de Arruda; Gonçalves, Michela … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 1, pp. 18-37
This paper evaluates the diffusion of peer effects on academic achievement of 4th grade students in the Brazilian public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in which the instruments for peers' performance are the...
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Secondary school enrolment and teenage childbearing : evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - 2019
This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of secondary education in Brazil between 1997 and 2009 and exploit variation in the introduction of schools...
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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2018
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in … a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate … secondary school. Positive effects are observed for pupils with a less favorable family background. Quantile regressions reveal …
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Economic Competence in Early Secondary School : Evidence From a Large-Scale Assessment in Germany
Kaiser, Tim - 2020
We employ a psychometrically validated performance test to study economic competence among a large and representative sample of early secondary school students in Southwest Germany. The rich dataset allows us to study variation in economic competence across school types and observable student...
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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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