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School tracking and development of cognitive skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269163
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School tracking and development of cognitive skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273922
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School tracking and development of coglitive skills
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope - In: Journal of labor economics 31 (2013) 3, pp. 577-602
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774344
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School tracking and development of cognitive skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003823319
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School tracking and development of cognitive skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824867
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417325
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2018
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947164
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School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2009
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764243