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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? Differences-in-differences evidence across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288175
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School staff autonomy and educational performance : within-school-type evidence
Verschelde, Marijn; Hindriks, Jean; Rayp, Glenn; … - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 36 (2015) 2, pp. 127-155
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412900
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Linguistic diversity in the classroom, student achievement, and social integration
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Vonnahme, Christina - 2018
In this article, we analyze whether non-native speakers in the classroom affect the educational achievement and social integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of immigrant pupils, we focus on language heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977373
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Do school principals respond to increased public scrutiny? : new survey evidence from Australia
Coelli, Michael; Foster, Gigi; Leigh, Andrew - 2018
We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School website in 2010. Our analysis is motivated by the implicit assumption that heightened public scrutiny should motivate principals to align schools' policies and practices with what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802962
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Immigrants in the classroom and effects on native children : having immigrant children in the classroom may sometimes, but not always, harm educational outcomes of native children
Jensen, Peter - 2015
Many countries are experiencing increasing inflows of immigrant students. This raises concerns that having a large share of students for whom the host country language is not their first language may have detrimental effects on the educational outcomes of native children. However, the evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433610
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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402504
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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008
International Student Assessment (PISA) survey on students' literacy levels. A competitive learning approach has a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268541
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An analysis of the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage and school quality on the probability of school dropout
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2013
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the … evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life outcomes. It uses the Australian PISA micro …-level data in combination with its longitudinal continuation in the LSAY data, to measure the degree to which individual PISA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792478
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Student scores in public and private schools : evidence from PISA 2009
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2014
education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408877
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Choose the school, choose the performance : new evidence on the determinants of student performance in eight European countries
Bonacini, Luca; Brunetti, Irene; Gallo, Giovanni - 2021
from the OECD’s PISA 2018 survey and by means of the application of efficient algorithms, we highlight that the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599413