| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14186 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14186 |
| The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts | |
| John P. Papay; Richard J. Murnane; John B. Willett | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-07-18 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The growing prominence of high-stakes exit examinations has made questions about their effects on student outcomes increasingly important. We take advantage of a natural experiment to evaluate the causal effects of failing a high-stakes test on high school completion for the cohort scheduled to graduate from Massachusetts high schools in 2006. With these exit examinations, states divide a continuous performance measure into dichotomous categories, so students with essentially identical performance may have different outcomes. We find that, for low-income urban students on the margin of passing, failing the 10th grade mathematics examination reduces the probability of on-time graduation by eight percentage points. The large majority (89%) of students who fail the 10th grade mathematics examination retake it. However, although we find that low-income urban students are just as likely to retake the test as apparently equally skilled suburban students, they are much less likely to pass this retest. Furthermore, failing the 8th grade mathematics examination reduces by three percentage points the probability that low-income urban students stay in school through 10th grade. We find no effects for suburban students or wealthier urban students. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14186 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571860 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John P. Papay,Richard J. Murnane,John B. Willett. The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts. 2008. |
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