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Causality Tests for Public School Performance and Funding
"... This paper seeks to shed light on the role of school funding in individual school performance. A unique data set is utilized for the Metropolitan Nashville – Davidson County School District in Tennessee, known colloquially as Metro. In 2005 the Metro school board undertook the task of breaking down ..."
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This paper seeks to shed light on the role of school funding in individual school performance. A unique data set is utilized for the Metropolitan Nashville – Davidson County School District in Tennessee, known colloquially as Metro. In 2005 the Metro school board undertook the task of breaking down
Social Capital and Education: Implications for Student and School Performance
"... Scholars seeking to understand why some students and schools perform better than others have suggested that social capital might be part of the explanation. Social capital in today’s terms is argued to be an intangible resource that emerges—or fails to emerge—from social relations and social structu ..."
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Scholars seeking to understand why some students and schools perform better than others have suggested that social capital might be part of the explanation. Social capital in today’s terms is argued to be an intangible resource that emerges—or fails to emerge—from social relations and social
Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation
, 2000
"... Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a child en ..."
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Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a child
MODELLING THE VARIABLES THAT INFLUENCE THE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN THE MADRID MUNICIPALITIES
"... The evaluation of the school performance is a very important strategic field due to the great amount of public and private resources invested by the society in the non-university education. State and regional governments undergo several tests and surveys which try to measure the levels of learning a ..."
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The evaluation of the school performance is a very important strategic field due to the great amount of public and private resources invested by the society in the non-university education. State and regional governments undergo several tests and surveys which try to measure the levels of learning
discrimination, and school performance among children of Mexican immigrants
, 2004
"... This secondary analysis of 578 Mexican-American adolescents participating in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study examined the relative influence of several correlates of perceived discrimination. It finds that perceptions of school climates are strongly and consistently related to percepti ..."
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to perceptions of discrimination and school performance. These findings are consistent with a growing body of educational literature that highlights the protective benefits of supportive teaching climates.
Exploring models of school performance: From theory to practice
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, 2005
"... Our purpose in this report is to present and discuss competing accountability approaches, or models, designed to systematically indicate how a school’s students are performing academically. Within the framework of the current federally mandated accountability legislation, increased interest in model ..."
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Our purpose in this report is to present and discuss competing accountability approaches, or models, designed to systematically indicate how a school’s students are performing academically. Within the framework of the current federally mandated accountability legislation, increased interest
Competition, parental involvement, and public school performance
, 1999
"... Introduction In the light of concerns over the level of academic achievement in the public school system, my thesis examines the determinants of public school performance, focusing on the roles of incentives and parental involvement. It consists of theory and related empirics. In the theory, I anal ..."
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Introduction In the light of concerns over the level of academic achievement in the public school system, my thesis examines the determinants of public school performance, focusing on the roles of incentives and parental involvement. It consists of theory and related empirics. In the theory, I
Do Inspections Improve Primary School Performance?
"... This article investigates the effect of Dutch primary school inspections on test scores. These inspec-tions are assessments of the educational quality of schools. The authors use two approaches to estimate the effect of the inspections. The first approach, based on a standard fixed effects model, in ..."
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, indicates that inspections lead to slightly better school performance: Test scores increase by 2 % to 3 % of a standard deviation. However, the fixed effects model might be sensitive to selection bias. The second approach exploits a sample of randomly selected schools originally drawn for the purpose
Life Satisfaction and School Performance after Liver
"... Background and Aim: Liver Transplantation (LT) is a procedure that can save and prolong the life of children with end stage liver disease. These patients need prolong follow up, may develop complications and thus need recurrent hospital admissions. These can affect their psychosocial functioning. Th ..."
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. The aim of this study is to evaluate the life satisfaction and school performance of children who underwent LT. Materials and Methods: We prospectively assessed the life satisfaction and school performance in 48 pediatric patients who underwent LT between 2004 and 2008 at Organ Transplantation Center
Student's Capabilities, Intelligence, and School Performance
"... The focus of this study will explore how the dysgraphic disability of one child affects teachers ' perceptions of that child's capabilities, intelligence, and performance of daily tasks associated with school and schoolwork. The child will use the Tablet PC's handwriting recognition t ..."
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The focus of this study will explore how the dysgraphic disability of one child affects teachers ' perceptions of that child's capabilities, intelligence, and performance of daily tasks associated with school and schoolwork. The child will use the Tablet PC's handwriting recognition
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