Search Results - subject:"school effectiveness"

Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits … for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw, unadjusted test score outcomes of schools are biased estimators of school … effectiveness due to sorting of certain types of students into certain types of schools. Controlling for basic background …

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Role of continuing professional teacher development (CPTD) on teachers' and learners' achievement in South Africa : a literature review

Adu, Kemi Olajumoke; Duku, Ntombozuko; Adu, Emmanuel Olusola - 2023

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Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023

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Parents know better: Sorting on match effects in primary school

Ovidi, Marco - 2022

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the achievement of students who are as good as randomly...

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Parents know better : sorting on match effects in primary school

Ovidi, Marco - 2022

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Parents know better: Primary school choice and student achievement in London

Ovidi, Marco - 2021

Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in London primary schools. I exploit as good as random...

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Parents know better: primary school choice and student achievement in London

Ovidi, Marco - 2021

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Effects of a multi-faceted education program on enrollment, equity, learning, and school management : evidence from India

Delavallade, Clara; Griffith, Alan; Thornton, Rebecca L. - 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment...

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Analysing Differential School Effectiveness Through Multilevel and Agent-Based Modelling

Salgado, Mauricio; Marchione, Elio; Gilbert, Nigel - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (2014) 4, pp. 3-3

During the last thirty years education researchers have developed models for judging the comparative performance of schools, in studies of what has become known as â€œdifferential school effectivenessâ€. A great deal of empirical research has been carried out to understand why differences...

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School quality and the performance of disadvantaged learners in South Africa

Coetzee, Marisa - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014

data from the National School Effectiveness Study which collected test scores and background information on children in …

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