Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students …' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an … conditions of primary school teachers, matching them by the year they entered the profession. After showing that teacher …

results show that students attending vocational schools perform significantly worse than those in general schools, except in … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically … significant, while among students in vocational schools, those in a small city tend to perform better than those in a big city …

rich auxiliary information on all schools and pupils sampled for PISA whether responding or not, including data from two … large-scale administrative sources on pupils' results in national public exams, which correlate highly with the PISA target …

schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in accounting for this variation. We analyse a …

. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight … decline in performance solely for students at the top of the achievement distribution. The heterogeneous peer effects by …. Utilizing fixed effects methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity with respect to the schools' students attend, we …

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students on achievement of other students, potential peer effects of … selectivity across time and schools. On average we find no evidence of negative peer effects of LE students on females and white …

There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … suggests negative though negligible peer effects of Limited English (LE) students and black students on the achievement of … other students, potential peer effects of students from Latin America in general have not been considered. In this paper, we …

We explore whether teachers have different predictions for the examination performance of ethnic minority students … predictions to grades received through actual blindly marked examinations. Relative to White British students, teachers appear to … relative to White British students. We exploit an exogenous change in assessment methods to compare grades based on teacher …