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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445964
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The negative consequences of overambitious curricula in developing countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - 2012
faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687186
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant - 2013
faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089159
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant - 2013
faster than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090649
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Education Curriculum and Student Achievement : Theory and Evidence
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993048
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Dealing with Student Heterogeneity : Curriculum Implementation Strategies and Student Achievement
Ballatore, Rosario Maria - 2017
In this study we investigate the relationship between student achievement and a crucial aspect of teaching: curriculum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965839
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The Causal Effects of an Intensified Curriculum on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127598
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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473274
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Education curriculum and student achievement : theory and evidence
Andrietti, Vincenzo; Su, Xuejuan - 2016
This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473278
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736655