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Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo – Centre for Economic Performance, 2013
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same school with and without external examiners. The indirect…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Examiners, Accountability, Grade 2
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Hochbein, Craig – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
The purpose of this study is to determine the validity of common assumptions about the rate at which school decline manifests. From a population of 981 elementary schools in the state of Virginia, the author uses three operational definitions of school decline to identify samples of declining schools: Absolute (n = 217), Relational (n = 510), and…
Descriptors: Definitions, Low Achievement, Educational Quality, Elementary Schools