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DiSalvo, Richard W. – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Do grade configurations affect student academic performance? To bring new evidence to this question, I use recent district-by-grade data for nearly the entire United States that contain measures of test score achievement and rates of school switching induced by grade configuration. Past research has found that student performance, is, on average,…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Achievement Tests, Scores
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Friesen, Jane; Hickey, Ross; Krauth, Brian – Education Finance and Policy, 2010
We use data on students in grades 4-7 in the Canadian province of British Columbia to investigate the effect of having disabled peers on value-added exam outcomes. Longitudinal data for multiple cohorts of students are used together with school-by-grade-level fixed effects to account for endogenous selection into schools. Our estimates suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Students, Academic Achievement