Improving School Accountability Measures

By Thomas J. Kane, Douglas O. Staiger. 2001

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Subfields: Education, Information Systems and Management

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The Performance and Competitive Effects of School Autonomy (2009, result): “This is reflected in the coefficient on base pass rates in models of pass rates 1 or 2 years after the base year (around 0.9) and is consistent with the results presented by Kane and Staiger (2001).”
Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition (2003, background): “However, Kane and Staiger (2001) have shown that much of the performance difference between the students of two consecutive grades in the same school is actually noise (sampling variation and variation due to nonpersistent sources).”
Incentives to Improve Teaching : Lessons from Latin America (2005, unknown): “Kane and Staiger (2001) and Koretz (2002) provide evidence of the multiple problems in assessing the knowledge of students.”
Effects and side effects of inspections and accountability in education: an overview of empirical studies (2007, background): “As a result, the questions are often asked as to whether public control and accountability mechanisms actually work (see for example Leeuw, 2000 ; Wiggins & Tymms, 2000 ) and what the advantages and disadvantages of these mechanisms are (see for example Wiggins & Tymms, 2000 ; Kane & Staiger, 20”
The Effects of Competition Between Schools on Educational Outcomes: A Review for the United States (2002, unknown): “Kane and Staiger (2001) attribute much of the variance in When Schools Compete to Attract Students 17 Looking at the gap between public and private schools in their student–teacher ratios, Arum (1996) finds that the larger the private school sector in a state, the smaller the gap.”