ERIC Number: EJ885368
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Apr
Pages: 25
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A Cross-National Analysis of the Relations of School Choice and Effectiveness Differences between Private-Dependent and Public Schools
Dronkers, Jaap; Avram, Silvia
Educational Research and Evaluation, v16 n2 p151-175 Apr 2010
We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded private sector and the public sector in a sample of 26 countries. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and school effectiveness processes and thus to account for selectivity issues involved in the comparison of the 2 sectors. Concerning school choice, we found 2 patterns: a choice of upwardly mobile parents for private schools and a preference for segregation by (lower) middle-class parents. As regards school effectiveness, our results indicate that, after controlling for selectivity, a substantial advantage in reading achievement remains among students in publicly funded private schools in 10 out of the 26 countries. (Contains 1 figure, 4 tables and 15 notes.)
Descriptors: Private Schools, Private Sector, School Choice, Reading Achievement, School Effectiveness, Parents, Public Sector, Public Schools, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Socioeconomic Status, Tuition, School Size, Selective Admission, Teacher Student Ratio, Access to Computers, Teacher Shortage, Social Class, Scores, Immigrants, Cultural Influences, Family Income, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Mothers, Fathers, Institutional Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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