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Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings

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dc.contributor.authorCipollone, Piero
dc.contributor.authorMontanaro, Pasqualino
dc.contributor.authorSestito, Paolo
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:33:16Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:33:16Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractStudents' competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including individual school's effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in students' competencies, i.e., value-added measures. Using the results of an INVALSI survey on high schools, this paper implements these measures for Italy, in an attempt to identify a general pattern of value-added among schools. Purging the sample from measurement errors--which require the exclusion of schools with too few students tested--and taking into account the selection bias implied by the non-compulsory nature of the survey, we find that the positive gap in favour of general programs (licei) when looking at the level of competencies tends to vanish (in math and science) when focusing on value-added measures. By contrast, in the same subjects schools located in the Southern regions are characterized not only by a lower starting level of competencies but also by a lower value-added. For math at least, there is also a general tendency for teachers' turnover to have a negative effect on students' improvements.en
dc.identifier.citationGiornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia
dc.identifier.issn00170097
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5528
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectAnalysis of Education I210
dc.subjectPublic Sector Labor Markets J450
dc.subjectLabor Turnover
dc.subjectVacancies
dc.subjectLayoffs J630
dc.titleValue-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findingsen
dc.title.alternativeGiornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economiaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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okr.journal.nbpages81-114
okr.language.supporteden
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