The Effects of Delaying Tracking in Secondary School

• Tác giả: Maciej Jakubowski
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 207.12 Missions and religious education [formerly 291.71
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 306720
• Chủ đề: 1. education reform; 2. secondary education; 3. student performance; 4. time on task; 5. tracking

Tóm tắt

Delaying tracking, extending students' exposure to a general academic education and increasing their time on task on basic competences (reading, mathematics) could improve academic outcomes. To test the hypothesis that delayed vocational streaming improves academic outcomes, this paper analyzes Poland's significant improvements in international achievement tests and the restructuring of the system which expanded general schooling. Estimates using propensity-score matching and difference-in-differences estimates show that delaying vocational education and increasing time on task have a positive and significant impact on student performance on the order of a standard deviation.