Short-Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

Rockoff, Jonah E.; Turner, Lesley J.

doi:10.1257/pol.2.4.119

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“…Other studies exploit discontinuities in school accountability ratings and adopt a regression discontinuity approach. They show that schools receiving low ratings subsequently showed positive conditional impacts on pupil achievement gains, with strong and substantial effects (for example, Figlio and Rouse, 2006, Chiang, 2009, Rockoff and Turner, 2010and Rouse et al, 2013.…”

Section: School Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Education Systems: Assignment, Admissions, Accountability and Autonomy

Burgess¹

2017

Economics Without Borders

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This chapter focuses on education market systems, as one of the key issues for policy in education. Research suggests that a coherent market structure for schools is very important for attainment. The key elements are: assignment of pupils to schools and admissions policies, and school accountability and autonomy. The central element of the market structure is the assignment mechanism, which allocates each child to a school. There are different such mechanisms available: school choice, neighbourhood schooling and elite schooling or 'tracking', which assigns pupils on the basis of an exam. Other key elements include governance rules and hierarchy: school accountability and school autonomy. Finally, the nature of school leadership is tied up with the degree of autonomy -leaders are far more important in autonomous schools.

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Section: School Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Education Systems: Assignment, Admissions, Accountability and Autonomy

Burgess¹

2017

Economics Without Borders

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“…achievements (Carnoy and Loeb 2002;Koning and van der Wiel 2012), undesired side-effects of such systems range from focusing teaching effort on pupils with achievements close to tests' thresholds (Reback, 2008;Neal and Whitmore Schanzenbach, 2010;Rockoff and Turner, 2010) to the distortion of results and cheating by teachers (i.e. grade inflation ;Jacob and Levitt, 2003).…”

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“…While there are many possible arguments to substantiate this assumption, one reason is that schools compete over exam results to attract students and parents -and often also the government -use them to evaluate schools (e.g. Wikström and Wikström, 2005;Reback, 2008;Neal and Whitmore Schanzenbach, 2010;Rockoff and Turner, 2010).…”

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Public expenditures, educational outcomes and grade inflation: Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherlands

Witte

Geys

Solondz

2014

Economics of Education Review

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Abstract:This article argues that resource expansion can fail to improve actual student performance because it might cause educators to soften grading standards (i.e., induce grade inflation). Our theoretical model shows that, depending on schools' and students' reactions to resource changes, the overall effect of resources on education outcomes is ambiguous. Schools, however, have an incentive to adjust their grading structure following resource shifts, such that grade inflation is likely to accompany resource-driven policies. Exploiting a quasiexperimental policy intervention in the Netherlands, we find that additional resources may indeed induce grade inflation, particularly when the resource increase is limited.

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“…One of the most prominent examples of accountability interventions is the state-level ranking system of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in the United States. Rockoff and Turner (2010) found that the introduction of student tests and other measures to assign each school a grade was enough to increase student achievement in New York City. Rouse, Hannaway, Goldhaber, and Figlio (2013) show that http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.03.007 0272-7757/© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.…”

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