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Over-estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school performance in the Chilean education system
Toledo Román, Gabriela; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo - In: Estudios de economía 42 (2015) 1, pp. 99-128
teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed that teacher attributes which favored learning appeared more …
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Student Achievement and University Classes : Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers
Martins, Pedro S.; Walker, Ian - 2021
We examine the empirical determinants of student achievement in higher education, focusing our attention on its small-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The empirical analysis is based on longitudinal...
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Evaluating the Effect of Teachers' Performance Incentives on Pupil Achievement
Lavy, Victor - 2002
Proposals to use teachers' performance incentives as the basis for school reforms have recently attracted considerable … the causal effect of a program that offered monetary incentives to teachers as a function of their students' achievements …. The program offered incentives to schools in the form of performance awards, part of which were distributed to teachers …
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Investigating Primary School Quality Using Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction
Skapinaki, Athina; Salamoura, Maria - 2020
Purpose: The current study aims to examine the impact of teachers’ job satisfaction and self-efficacy in improving … teachers emphasizing on different aspects of marketing: external, interactive or internal marketing.Methods: Questionnaire … survey, on a sample of 193 teachers in a total number of 420 has been used. The 74-item questionnaire was divided into 4 …
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Discrimination in grading: experimental evidence from primary school teachers
Sprietsam, Maresa - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 45 (2013) 1, pp. 523-538
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Returns to private education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián (contributor); Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment...
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The crime reducing effect of education
Machin, Stephen; Marie, Olivier; Vujić, Sunčica - 2010
In this paper, we present evidence on empirical connections between crime and education, using various data sources from Britain. A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with higher levels of education. However, it is essential to ensure that the direction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975627
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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties
Waddell, Glen R. - 2010
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986938
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play : the effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2012
and/or teachers) rather than to distraction from having a stranger in the class. -- education ; testing ; external …
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Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes : evidence from Sweden's large scale voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2012
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where all public schools were essentially local monopolists, the...
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