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We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate … variation in the age of tracking as well as student achievement before and after potential tracking. Based on pooled data from …-biased. Our differences-in-differences estimates suggest that early tracking does not significantly affect overall migrant …
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There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into … different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school … to estimate the relationship between the experienced tracking length and the performance in standardized cognitive test …
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effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …
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Education reforms that allow new educational providers to supply schooling into a state system can improve parental … parental involvement and produces accountability. Education policies need to be informed by goldstandard research to ensure …
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of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … on drop-outs is positive. Analogously, we also observed that an additional grade in primary education reduces the …
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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perception of a positive educational legacy, Russian scores are not stellar and have mostly deteriorated. Using an education …
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496971
of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … on drop-outs is positive. Analogously, we also observed that an additional grade in primary education reduces the …
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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 original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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