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Graded children : evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973482
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Methods for evaluating educational programs : does writing center participation affect student achievement?
Bredtmann, Julia; Crede, Carsten J.; Otten, Sebastian - 2011
with presumed selfperceptional biases of students in feedback surveys, we use different quantitative evaluation methods and … compare the results to corresponding qualitative student surveys. Based on this evaluation, we present and discuss the … effectiveness of educational measures. -- Performance evaluation ; educational programs ; student evaluation ; empirical methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580301
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem
Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2011 - This version: July 15, 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266733
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Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310701
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Sticky assessments : the impact of teachers' grading standard on pupils' school performance
Keller, Tamás - 2015
This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since they also reflect teachers' ratings of pupils. Grades therefore contain valuable information about pupils' own - usually unknown - ability. The incorporated assessment in grade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317125
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Können sich Hochschuldozenten bessere studentische Lehrevaluationen "erkaufen"?
Lütkenhöner, Laura - 2013
Zeitpunkt der Evaluation erwartete oder bereits erhaltene Note zum späteren Zeitpunkt besser ist als zum früheren Zeitpunkt. Die … evaluation. These aspects are the student's gender, his or her parental home and the fact whether or not he or she has already …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774830
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Long-term consequences of an innovative redundancy retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000 - Revised Version
In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel mills and related firms in the metal industry have lead to large-scale redundancy plans. A special Steel Foundation was created as part of a social plan. This foundation acted like an independent training center, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750868
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Honest grading, grade inflation and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any corresponding increase in ability, this is called grade inflation. Conventional wisdom says that such grade inflation is unavoidable since it is essentially costless to award...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667051
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Evaluating efficient public good provision : theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2010
Provision of most public goods (e.g., health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection, utilities) can be characterised by a two-stage production process. In the first stage, basic inputs (e.g., labour and capital) are used to generate service potential (e.g., opening hours,...
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