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Bar, Talia; Kadiyali, Vrinda; Zussman, Asaf - 2009

Concerns over grade inflation and the profusion of high grades have led institutions of higher education in the United States to adopt various grading reforms. An element common to several prominent reforms is providing information on the distribution of grades in different courses. The main...

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The effect of the first Italian research evaluation exercise on student enrolment choices

Biancardi, Daniele; Bratti, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies the impact of the first Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VTR 2001-2003) on university …

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Teaching, technology and test scores : the impact of personal computers on student performance in primary school

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin - 2023

The closing of schools and shift to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school. There is little credible evidence on how one-to-one...

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Individual incentives in program participation: splitting up the process in assignment and enrollment

Weber, Andrea Maria - 2008

In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...

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The effect of high school employment on educational attainment: a conditional difference-in-differences approach

Buscha, Franz; Maurel, Arnaud; Page, Lionel; … - 2008

Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal nature of the NELS by employing, for the first time in the related literature, a semiparametric...

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Focused interventions and test score fade-out

Gilraine, Michael; Penney, Jeffrey - In: The review of economics and statistics 107 (2025) 2, pp. 570-579

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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers

Taylor, Eric S. - 2011

The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem …. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of … mid-career public school teachers where we can consider these two types of evaluation effect separately. Employee …

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Food for Thought : The Effects of School Accountability Plans on School Nutrition

Figlio, David N. - 2002

School accountability systems based on high-stakes testing of students have become ubiquitous in the United States, and are now federal policy as well. This paper identifies a previously-unresearched method through which schools faced with potential sanctions may 'game the system' in order to...

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Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs

Todd, Petra - 2006

evaluation is useful for designing programs that achieve some optimality criteria, such as maximizing impact for a given cost … to evaluate a program ex ante. We illustrate the application of ex ante evaluation methods using data from the PROGRESA …

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Die G8-Reform in Deutschland : Auswirkungen auf Schülerleistungen und Bildungsungleichheit

Homuth, Christoph - 2017

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