The recent federal education bill, No Child Left Behind, requires states to test students in grades three to eight each year, and to judge school performance on the basis of these test scores. While intended to maximize student learning, there is little empirical evidence about the effectiveness...

Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Expertinnen und Experten zeigen in Originalbeiträgen, wie an verschiedenen Stellen von der Grundschule bis zur Wahl einer weiteren Ausbildung nach der Grundausbildung Bildungsverläufe beeinflusst werden, beispielsweise...

PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, being a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate rankings. This paper provides a method to identify and account for non-serious behavior in...