Search Results - subject:"STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT"

Global universal basic skills: current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448016

How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being?

Green, Colin; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Salvanes, Kari Vea - 2022

How much young children should be tested and graded is a highly contentious issue in education policy. Opponents consider it detrimental to child mental health, leading to misaligned incentives in educational policy and having little if any redeeming impact on educational performance. Others see...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448185

Does an education major matter for teaching? : the relationship between teachers' degree and student achievement

Drouet, Marcelo; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; … - 2022

-significant relationship between degree type and student achievement, suggesting that teachers with and without an education degree are equally … education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student … achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which, for a period of time, allowed any graduate, regardless of their major, to …

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Using loss aversion and framing to nudge students' classroom performance

Bećirović, Damir; Zahirović Suhonjić, Anida; … - In: Management : journal of contemporary management issues 27 (2022) 2, pp. 5-17

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426464

Access, achievements, and aspirations: The impacts of school tracking on student outcomes

Bach, Maximilian; Klein, Thilo; McNamara, Sarah - 2024

Though the use of tracking policies to stratify students is commonplace, evi- dence concerning the effects of ability-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism and a quasi-experimental framework, we find...

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COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA

Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, Harry - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...

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Improving educational outcomes: Analyses of intervention and public opinion

Wedel, Katharina - 2024

qualifications. The results show that teacher qualifications play a moderating role for the effect of instruction time on student … achievement. Chapter 3 examines dropout from a mentoring program designed to help disadvantaged adolescents and analyzes a program …

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COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA

Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533874

Competitive Effects of Charter Schools

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2024

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...

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