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Accountability, incentives and behavior: the impact of high-stakes testing in the Chicago Public Schools

Brian A. Jacob
- 01 Jun 2005 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 5, pp 761-796
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The authors examined the impact of an accountability policy implemented in the Chicago Public Schools in 1996-1997, using a panel of student-level, administrative data, and found that math and reading achievement increased sharply following the introduction of the accountability policy, in comparison to both prior achievement trends in the district and to changes experienced by other large, urban districts.
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This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2005-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 554 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Accountability & Special education.

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Is It Just a Bad Class? Assessing the Stability of Measured Teacher Performance

Dan Goldhaber, +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reported on work estimating the stability of value-added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given that new workforce policies implicitly assume that effectiveness is a stable attribute within teachers.
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Automatic grade promotion and student performance: Evidence from Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
- 01 Mar 2014 - 
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of automatic grade promotion on academic achievement in 1993 public primary schools in Brazil and found a negative and significant effect of about 7% of a standard deviation on math test scores.
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: The effect of external examiners in Italian schools

Marco Bertoni, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 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 standardised educational tests.
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High-Stakes Choice: Achievement and Accountability in the Nation's Oldest Urban Voucher Program

John F. Witte, +4 more
- 01 Dec 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of a high-stakes testing and reporting requirement on students using publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools was investigated in the context of both the school choice and accountability literatures.

Is Kindergarten the New First Grade? The Changing Nature of Kindergarten in the Age of Accountability

Daphna Bassok, +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that time on literacy rose by 25 percent from roughly 5.5 to 7 hours per week and exposure to social studies, science, music, art and physical education all dropped.
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Orley Ashenfelter
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Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating

Brian A. Jacob, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2003 - 
TL;DR: Jacob and Levitt as mentioned in this paper investigated the prevalence and predictors of teacher cheating in Chicago Public Schools. But they did not consider the role of teachers in the cheating and did not identify any teachers who were involved in cheating.
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Economic Considerations and Class Size

Alan B. Krueger
- 01 Feb 2003 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined evidence on the effect of class size on student achievement and showed that the results of quantitative summaries of the literature depend critically on whether studies are accorded equal weight.
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The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education

Walt Haney
- 19 Aug 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the recent history of education reform and statewide testing in Texas, which led to the introduction of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in 1990-91.
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