Testing, Crime and Punishment

By David N. Figlio. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Information Systems and Management

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More Than a Metaphor: The Contribution of Exclusionary Discipline to a School-to-Prison Pipeline (2014, background): “Figlio (2006), measuring a three-way interaction among high-stakes assessment, student achievement, and school exclusion in a subset of school districts in Florida, found that schools reduced their suspension penalties for higher-achieving students in high-stakes grades (grades four, five, eight,…”
Measuring value-added in higher education: Possibilities and limitations in the use of administrative data (2014, background): “Finally, experience with value-added measures in the K-12 sector has shown that institutions are likely to game the system (e.g., Figlio, 2006), and there is no reason to not expect similar responses in higher education.”
The Performance and Competitive Effects of School Autonomy (2009, background): “…they are ill, have been suspended, or are classified as being in special education), the fraction of students passing five or more exams is invariant to composition-related practices such as suspending students (Figlio 2006) or reclassifying them as having special educational needs ( Jacob 2005).”
Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure. Working Paper 13. (2007, background): “…will not count against the school in accountability systems (see, e.g., Cullen and Reback (2007), Figlio and Getzler (2007), Jacob (2004))2, and Figlio (2006) indicates 1 Recent nationwide studies by Carnoy and Loeb (2002) and Hanushek and Raymond (2005) find significant improvement in student…”
Using Student Test Scores to Measure Teacher Performance (2015, background): “There is evidence that they employ discipline procedures to ensure that low-performing students will be absent on test day (Figlio, 2003), manipulate grade retention policies (Haney, 2000; Jacob, 2005), misreport administrative data (Peabody & Markley, 2003), and plan nutritionally enriched lunch…”
Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming Under a Performance Accountability System (2006, background): “and Figlio (2005) finds that schools also alter the test-taking pool by strategically assigning long suspensions to low-performing students subject to disciplinary action near the test-taking”