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Unveiling school effectiveness : Progress 8, parental choices and closing the achievement gap
Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414340
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Skill selectivity in transatlantic migration : the case of Canary Islanders in Cuba
Juif, Dácil - In: Revista de historia económica 33 (2015) 2, pp. 189-222
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391437
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Assessment, qualifications and standards : the UK compared to France, Germany, Singapore and the U.S. : a technical report
Steedman, Hilary (contributor) - 1997 - 1. publ.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000673963
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Qualifications and the quality of education in Ghanaian rural middle schools
Boakye, J. Kwasi Ayim; Oxenham, John - 1982
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000616207
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Drivers of student performance : evidence from higher secondary public schools in Delhi
Goel, Deepti; Barooah, Bidisha - 2018
We examine the role of teachers and students in the formation of grade 12 test scores in public schools in Delhi. There … is substantial variation in teacher and student quality within schools. Over the period spanning grades 11 and 12, being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131005
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Teachers' preferences for proximity and the implications for staffing schools : evidence from Peru
Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; … - 2019
This paper explores rank-ordered teacher candidates' preferences for public schools in Peru by analyzing the 2015 … teacher hiring process. Our analysis shows that, in seeking permanent positions in public schools, candidates appear to search … seem to prefer schools with higher enrollment, basic services and located in wealthier areas. These preferences vary by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128647
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Assessing Rothstein’s critique of teacher value-added models
Kinsler, Josh - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 2, pp. 333-362
Value-added models of teacher effectiveness yield consistent estimates of teacher quality under the assumption that students are randomly assigned to classrooms conditional on ability. Rothstein (2010) tested and rejected this underlying sort- ing assumption, casting doubt on the usefulness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756834
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The effects of class size on the long run growth in reading abilities and early adult outcomes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study
Boozer, Michael A.; Maloney, Tom - 2001
This paper utilizes the feature of the CHDS data from New Zealand that children are sampled for extremely long individual histories of their class size experiences as well as their scholastic and early labor market outcomes. Our interest is to explore the full set of empirical implications of...
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Teaching practices and cognitive skills
Bietenbeck, Jan - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 143-153
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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools …. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality …-quality schools develop their skills substantially faster than those in low-quality schools. The results remain robust to the …
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