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Socioeconomic gradient literacy and numeracy skills of 15-year-olds across Canadian provinces and years using the PISA surveys (2000-2012)
Lefebvre, Pierre - 2016
In 2000, the OECD began the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial survey of the knowledge … PISA test scores in reading and math. The SES used is more conventional then the arbitrary character of the index developed … by PISA. First, average gaps in students' educational attainment between the lower and top SES quintiles, across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152887
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A new macroeconomic measure of human capital exploiting PISA and PIAAC : linking education policies to productivity
Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new … measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186787
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445964
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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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Publicizing the results of standardized external tests : does it have an effect on school outcomes?
Anghel, Brindusa; Cabrales, Antonio; Sainz, Jorge; Sanz … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-20
-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA study from 2000 to 2009. We later confirm our results using synthetic control methods …
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Ranking teachers when teacher value-added is heterogeneous across students : preprint
Stacy, Brian - 2014
The typical measure used by researchers and school administrators to evaluate teachers is based on how the students' achievement increases after being exposed to the teacher, or based on the teacher's "value-added''. When teacher value-added is heterogeneous across her students, the typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439171
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School Age, Student Achievement and Structural Breaks
Miankhel, Adil Khan - 2022
The school building is a built environment in the physical learning environment. How it is perceived by students, teachers, leaders, parents, community and interacts with content, resources and societal progress have important implications on student outcomes. The Australian Capital Territory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289382
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Why subsidize independent schools? : estimating the effect of a unique Canadian schooling model on educational attainment
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2021
Canada is recognized as one of the top 10 countries in secondary education according to PISA results. A particularly … students also perform extremely well in PISA testing. This paper uses the year Canadian 2000 PISA cohort of 15-year-olds to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501142
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Measuring the effect of competitive teacher recruitment on student achievement : evidence from Ecuador
Araujo P., Maria Daniela - 2019
In the last decade, several Latin American governments have implemented new teacher recruitment policies based on evaluations of candidates' competency and knowledge so as to raise the quality of their teachers and schools. Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000593
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Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand : a regression discontinuity approach
Korwatanasakul, Upalat - 2019
This paper estimates returns to schooling in Thailand, applying a regression discontinuity approach to the change in the compulsory schooling law in 1978. This law helped to enhance human capital investment on the eve of rapid structural transformation. The returns to schooling based on our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161181