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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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Tinkering toward accolades: School gaming under a performance accountability system*

Julie Berry Cullen, +2 more
- 12 Jun 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors explored the extent to which schools manipulated the composition of students in the test-taking pool in order to maximize ratings under Texas' accountability system in the 1990s, and found evidence of a moderate degree of strategic behavior.
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Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams

Brian A. Jacob
- 20 Jun 2001 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of high school graduation exams on student achievement and dropout rates is examined using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS), which is able to control for prior student achievement, school, and state characteristics.
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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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The Dallas school accountability and incentive program: an evaluation of its impacts on student outcomes

Helen F. Ladd
- 01 Feb 1999 - 
TL;DR: This article evaluated the effects of performance-based accountability in K-12 education, and found positive and relatively large effects for Hispanic and white seventh graders, but not for black students.
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The Grasshopper and the Ant: Motivational Responses of Low-Achieving Students to High-Stakes Testing:

Melissa Roderick, +1 more
- 21 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: The authors examined the responses of 102 low-achieving sixth and eighth-grade students to Chicago's highly publicized effort to end social promotion and found that the majority of these students described increased work effort under the policy.
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