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Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice

Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011

. This approach combines the three major critiques of the usefulness of performance tables into a natural metric. We … implement this for 500,000 students in England for a range of performance measures. Using performance tables is strongly better …

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Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice

Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

approach combines the three major critiques of the usefulness of performance tables into a natural, implementable metric. The … best content for school performance tables is the statistic that best answers the question: “In which feasible choice … for a range of performance measures. Using performance tables is strongly better than choosing at random: a child who …

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A natural experiment in school accountability: the impact of school performance information on pupil progress and sorting

Burgess, Simon; Wilson, Deborah; Worth, Jack - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

We test the hypothesis that the publication of school performance tables raises school effectiveness. Our data allow us …

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A natural experiment in school accountability: The impact of school performance information on pupil progress

Burgess, Simon; Wilson, Deborah; Worth, Jack - In: Journal of Public Economics 106 (2013) C, pp. 57-67

We test the hypothesis that the abolition of school performance tables negatively affects school effectiveness. Our …

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Evaluating the provision of school performance information for school choice

Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 175-190

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A natural experiment in school accountability : the impact of school performance information on pupil progress

Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah; Worth, Jack - In: Journal of public economics 106 (2013), pp. 57-67

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Divided Spaces - Divided School: an Exploration of the Spatial Relations of Social Division

Byrne, David; Rogers, Tim - In: Sociological Research Online 1 (1996) 2, pp. 3-3

Recent actions by Labour politicians have highlighted the degree of differentiation among UK state secondary schools. This article uses data describing the characteristics of schools and the academic achievements of the children attending them to generate a typology. This is related to recent...

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