“Socioeconomic status or noise? Tradeoffs in the generation of school quality information”

“This paper calculates a time series of simple, standard measures of schools` relative performance. These are drawn from a 1997-2004 panel of Chilean schools, using individual-level information on test scores and student characteristics for each year. The results suggest there is a stark tradeoff in the extent to which rankings generated using these measures: i) can be shown to be very similar to rankings based purely on students` socioeconomic status, and ii) are very volatile from year to year. At least in Chile, therefore, producing a meaningful ranking of schools that may inform parents and policymakers may be harder than is commonly assumed.”

Alejandra Mizala;

Pilar Romaguera;
Miguel Urquiola.
Date: 2006
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:edj:ceauch:225&r=edu

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