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Direct linkAguayo-Téllez, Ernesto; Martínez-Rodríguez, Flor E. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
Using an unanticipated policy reform in Mexico that shifted 4 months the cutoff date for elementary school eligibility in 2006 and information on academic performance of 15-year-old students from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 survey, who entered first grade in 2006, this paper estimates the effects of starting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy, Academic Achievement
Moussa, Wael S. – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
High school graduation rates are a central policy topic in the United States and have been shown to be stagnant for the past three decades. Using student-level administrative data from New York City Public Schools, I examine the impact of compulsory school attendance on high school graduation rates and grade attainment, focusing the analysis on…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Graduation Rate, High School Students, Grade 9
Diris, Ron – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
This study analyzes the effect of age-based retention on school achievement at different stages of education. I estimate an instrumental variable model, using the predicted probability of retention given month of birth as an instrument, while simultaneously accounting for the effect of month of birth on maturity at the time of testing. The…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Models, Probability
Hurwitz, Michael; Smith, Jonathan; Howell, Jessica S. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015
Using a rich data set of all SAT test takers from the 2004 through 2008 high school graduation cohorts, we investigate the impact of state-specific school age-of-entry laws on students' pathways into and through college. We document that these laws do not impact the probability that a student takes the SAT; however, we find strong evidence that…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, School Law, High School Graduates, College Entrance Examinations
Download full textKasapoglu, Koray – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study aims to investigate which factors are associated with Turkey's 15-year-olds' scoring above the OECD average (493) on the PISA'09 reading assessment. Collected from a total of 4,996 15-year-old students from Turkey, data were analyzed by logistic regression analysis in order to model the data of students who were split into two: (1)…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Reading Tests
