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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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Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System?

David N. Figlio, +1 more
- 25 Aug 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors used student-level fixed effects models to examine whether the initiation of a high-stakes test for accountability purposes affected Florida public schools' decisions regarding whether to assign students to special education, finding that schools systematically placed students from low socio-economic status backgrounds and historically low-performing students into special education categories that were at the time exempt from the accountability system.
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- 01 Aug 2007 - 
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- 04 Jun 2007 - 
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