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A COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SCHOOL EFFECTS AND TRACKING STUDENT PROGRESS FROM STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES
Justman, Moshe; Houng, Brendan - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2013
This paper compares two leading approaches to analyzing standardized test data: leastsquares value-added analysis, used mainly to support accountability by identifying teacher and school effects; and Betebenner’s (2009) student growth percentiles method, which focuses on normative tracking of...
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Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Causal Impact of Pre-school Participation and Teacher Qualifications on Year 3 National NAPLAN Cognitive Tests
Warren, Diana; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
evaluate the impact of attendance at pre-school programs on matched Year 3 nation-wide NAPLAN test outcomes in the domains of … children’s cognitive outcomes. While one year of learning in Year 3 is represented by about 50 NAPLAN points, we find average … pre-school domain effects as much as 10-15 points, mainly driven by the upper quantiles of the NAPLAN distribution. To …
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NAPLAN Scores as Predictors of Access to Higher Education in Victoria
Houng, Brendan; Justman, Moshe - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2014
Numeracy (NAPLAN) predicts access to higher education as determined by subsequent achievement on year-12 Victoria Certificate … the Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA). We find that a four-way classification of year-9 NAPLAN results explains 35% of the … variance in ATAR50, 37% in ATAR70 and 26% in ATAR90; and NAPLAN scores and basic demographic indicators explain 38% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942737
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How effective are Los Angeles elementary teachers and schools?
Buddin, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study uses value-added methods to examine the effectiveness of Los Angeles elementary teachers and schools. The results show that teacher effectiveness varies substantially across the school district. Most of the variance in teacher effectiveness is within schools and not across schools....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765624
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The Effect of School Closures on Standardised Test Scores
Gillitzer, Christian; Prasad, Nalini - 2023
What is the effect of COVID-19 related school closures on student achievement? We provide causal evidence using variation in the duration of school closures across and within Australian states. School closures ranged from 4 to 112 days. We measure student achievement using test scores from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262182
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When you are born matters: The impact of date of birth on educational outcomes in England
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas - 2010
This paper examines the impact of month of birth on national achievement test scores in England whilst children are in school, and on subsequent further and higher education participation. Using geographical variation in school admissions policies, we are able to split this difference into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291785
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Public policy for efficient education
Fisher, Walter H.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000
This paper studies the role of public policy to promote efficiency in human capital accumulation in the representative agent framework. Agents accumulate human capital by spending time in home study and in publicly provided schools. The individual faces an aggregate externality in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292789
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Educational reform, ability and family background
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293084
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The effects of test-based retention on student outcomes over time: Regression discontinuity evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2013
A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end of third grade be retained and provided with remedial services. We exploit a discontinuity in the probability of third grade retention under Florida's test-based promotion policy...
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The effect of teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - 2013
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we find that TFA teachers neither help...
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