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matching quality by the respondent's evaluation of his new job compared to his former job. The results show that job changers …
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matching quality by the respondent's evaluation of his new job compared to his former job. The results show that job changers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558289
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
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Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
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Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973482
. Healthcare and education both lack oversight and evaluation mechanisms to ensure quality of service for its users. Additionally …
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We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...
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Consistent with the current emphasis on performance-based accountability in K-12 education, several states and a few local districts have introduced school-based incentive programs. This paper provides one of the few evaluations of such programs on student outcomes. Using a panel data set for...
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This paper compares two functionally different approaches to analyzing standardized test data: least-squares based value-added analysis, geared principally to supporting teacher and school accountability; and Betebenner’s (2009) student growth percentiles, which focuses primarily on tracking...
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This study applies a quasi-experimental research design to evaluate the effects of Chile’s national teacher evaluation …’s identification strategy exploits a recent change in the evaluation assignment mechanism, together with a discontinuity in the … evaluation system’s scoring mechanism. Jointly, these two factors provide plausibly exogenous variation in which teachers get …
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