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Egalite, Anna J.; Mills, Jonathan N.; Greene, Jay P. – Improving Schools, 2016
With an abundance of datasets of standardized test score data, researchers and education policymakers run the risk of focusing exclusively on the measurement of cognitive outcomes in key academic subjects such as math and reading at the expense of important non-cognitive outcomes. We use behavioral measures of conscientiousness, perseverance, and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Tests, Student Evaluation, Residential Schools
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Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
This study evaluates the effect of school district size on public high school graduation rates. The study calculates the graduation rate for each graduating class in each state between 1991 and 2002 and uses a fixed-effects model to examine the relationship between these graduation rates and changes in the size of each state's school districts…
Descriptors: School Choice, Residential Schools, High Schools, High School Graduates