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Theory-based evaluation of the curriculum Lgr 11a
Wahlström, Ninni; Sundberg, Daniel - 2015
This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to generate new knowledge concerning the influences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297458
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Elementary education in India versus China : guidelines for NEP implementation
Kumar, Naveen; Varghese, Vinitha - 2022
' compulsory schooling. India's NEP 2020 has components that have the potential to improve quality, equity, and efficiency of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259892
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Long-term effects of school size on students' outcomes
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Smith, Nina - 2014
We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending grade 9 in the period 1986-2004. This allows us to...
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School Closures and Student Achievement : Evidence from a High Stakes Exam
Riudavets, Marc; Uusitalo, Roope - 2023
We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure periods across schools between autumn 2020 and spring 2021....
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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
estimate the ATT effect of independent schooling on educational attainment. We find large, positive, robust, and statistically … significant effects of independent schooling on attainment. The robustness of the results to omitted variable bias is addressed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501142
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Understanding Low Achievement in English Schools
Cassen, Robert - 2008
Tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few qualifications in England. This paper seeks to build a fuller picture of Key Stage 4 low achievement and its correlates than available hitherto. We focus on three aspects. Firstly, the role of students' personal characteristics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771219
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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper
Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014
In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is measured by grade retention rates. We take advantage of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488494
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School closures and student achievement : evidence from a high stakes exam
Riudavets-Barcons, Marc; Uusitalo, Roope - 2023
We study the effect of school closures and the transition from on-site to on-line teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Finnish upper secondary schools. To identify the effects we exploit variation in the length of school closure periods across schools between autumn 2020 and spring 2021....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250294
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The Effect of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Attainment
Neal, Derek A. - 2008
Catholic secondary schooling on high school graduation rates and also examines Catholic schooling's effect on college … Churches and Church Membership to construct measures of access to Catholic secondary schooling for each county in the United … Catholic secondary schools are geographically concentrated in urban areas and that Catholic schooling greatly increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119463
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More schooling, less youth crime? : learning from an earthquake in Japan
Aoki, Yu - 2014
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of schooling on youth crime. To identify the causal effect, I use the … exogenous variation in schooling. Based on a comparison of the arrest rates between municipalities exposed to similar degrees of … expensive to reach a target level of social benefits by improving schooling than by strengthening the police force. …
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