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How do shocks to non-cognitive skills affect test scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...

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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Keywords: test scores, non-cognitive skills, cluster randomised trial, wild cluster bootstrap, randomisation inference …. Treatmentwasrandomlyassignedatthetutoriallevel(cluster randomised trial). Assignment was blocked with regard to the 7 tutors. In Monte Carlo simulations, we assess … randomised to receive the treatment, while the other half served as the control group. A cluster randomised trial can have the …

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