This paper analyzes optimal grading in a world that focuses on top grades. Students choose an effort level, their … coarseness of the grading scale to maximize student welfare. When choosing their effort, students overweight outstanding -- or …/Fail scales (tenure decisions) via A-F-scales (school) to fully disclosing scores (e.g. SAT) …

(HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores and cognitive and …. More experienced or female HRTs are also associated with a better classroom environment, more self-motivated students, more … teacher management skills in education production …

school students are randomly assigned to either a locally graded oral exam or a centrally graded written exam. Students … of already low-performing students. Because passing the exam is required to obtain a high school diploma, this translates … marginal students into dropping out of high school altogether. We show that these marginal students are severely disadvantaged …

high school and into post-secondary education for six years beyond on-time graduation in Spring 2014. Our focus is post …-secondary degree attainment gaps between four student populations which together comprise 94 percent of public school students in …This paper is a descriptive analysis of the 2009 Missouri public high school freshman cohort who were tracked though …

technology in education. Many schools today provide personal computers not only to older students, but also in primary school …. There is little credible evidence on how one-to-one (1:1) computer programs affect learning outcomes among younger pupils … learning outcomes on average, but a positive effect on test scores in Swedish and English among students with highly educated …

We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating … interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not sufficiently accurate, a social multiplier may magnify the … effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …

researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to …

We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …. Students in both groups benefit from increased school competition …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …