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Ganimian, Alejandro; Alfonso, Mariana; Santiago, Ana – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Many school systems today are trying to attract top college graduates into teaching, but little is known about what dissuades this target group from entering the profession. This study randomly assigned applicants for a highly-selective alternative pathway into teaching in Argentina either to a survey about their motivations for applying to the…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, Silvia – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded private sector and the public sector in a sample of 26 countries. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and school effectiveness processes and thus to account for selectivity issues involved in the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Private Sector, School Choice, Reading Achievement