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The effects of increasing the standards of the high school curriculum on school dropout
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469021
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The effects of increasing the standards of the high school curriculum on school dropout
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - 2015 - This version: January 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform that was introduced in one German state on high … school dropout. The reform increased the standards of the curriculum by reducing the freedom of choice in course selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463342
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Schulabbrecher in Deutschland -eine bildungsstatistische Analyse mit aggregierten und Individualdaten
Hoffmann, Sarah - 2010
This study provides a comprehensive report on the group of young people without a secondary school certificate in Germany. Official statistics are used to give an overview over the development of the dropout rate and its regional and school-type specific differences. Dropout rates are highest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701992
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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance
Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445964
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The causal effects of an intensified curriculum on cognitive skills : evidence from a natural experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473274
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Education curriculum and student achievement : theory and evidence
Andrietti, Vincenzo; Su, Xuejuan - 2016
This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473278
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Education Curriculum and Student Achievement : Theory and Evidence
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993048
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The Causal Effects of an Intensified Curriculum on Cognitive Skills : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andrietti, Vincenzo - 2016
- that compressed the academic-track high school curriculum into a (one year) shorter time span, thereby increasing time of … instruction and share of curriculum taught per grade. Using 2000-2012 PISA data and a quasi-experimental approach, I estimate the … impacts of this intensified curriculum on cognitive skills. I find robust evidence that the reform improved, on average, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127598
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The effects of the high school curriculum on school dropout
Görlitz, Katja; Gravert, Christina - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 52/54, pp. 5314-5328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645146
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Students' behavioural responses to a fallback option : evidence from introducing interim degrees in German schools
Obergruber, Natalie; Zierow, Larissa - 2018
Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895692