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Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings.
- Source :
- Oxford Review of Education; Dec2022, Vol. 48 Issue 6, p804-826, 23p, 5 Charts, 10 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics to estimate the value added of second-level schools in Ireland. We show that there is a considerable degree of reranking of schools when we move from analysing raw outcomes to value added; in many cases the best performing schools in raw terms are not the best in value-added terms. We show that, contrary to popular perception, fee-paying schools do not add higher value than other schools. A simulation exercise suggests that if parents chose the best value-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students has the potential to increase academic achievement substantially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03054985
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Oxford Review of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159687647
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2034611