This paper estimates the effect of participation in high school extracurricular activities on future earnings, making three important contributions to the existing literature: 1) it compares the earnings effects of participation in different types of clubs; 2) it investigates whether the effect...

This research examines whether teacher licensure test scores and other teacher qualifications affect high school student achievement. The results are based on longitudinal student-level data from Los Angeles. The achievement analysis uses a value-added approach that adjusts for both student and...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between teacher commitment and transformational leadership in secondary schools. A survey instrument was developed, based on conceptual framework on transformational leadership (Bass and Rigglo, 2006), and teacher commitment (Dannetta,...

We investigate how high school instruction in certain subjects is related to academic performance in college in the same courses. We find that high school exposure has only a mild association with college grades after controlling for academic, demographic, and individual-level variables. We...

We re-examine the findings in Park, Behrman, and Choi (2012) regarding the causal effects of single-sex schooling on South Korean high school seniors’ performance in the college entrance examination and college attendance. The results with an extra year of data indicate that single-sex schools...

The present research explored the influences of self-efficacy, delinquency, and academic aspirations on the academic achievement of 935 high school students from ten high schools in two Australian capital cities (Brisbane and Perth). It was predicted that while academic and social self-efficacy...

The general objective of this study was to find out the influence of the performance of the school administration on the student’s value orientations in the public secondary schools in Region XII. This study employed descriptive-correlation design. The subjects of the study were 374 students...

This paper studies gender-related performance differences in competitive environments using a novel setting: high school debate tournaments. I first document large gender gaps in percentage of debates won across all debate formats and find that differences in age and prior tournament experience...

The study sought to establish contributions of nonpayment of school levies by parents on school management. While carrying out the study, the researcher adopted a descriptive survey design. The researcher targeted 31 public secondary schools in Baringo County. A sample size of 30% was sampled...

The study sought to establish contributions of nonpayment of school levies by parents on staff performance, since there has been a growing concern on the deteriorating services rendered in public secondary schools in Kenya. While carrying out the study, the researcher adopted a descriptive...