Academic Peer Effects With Different Group Assignment Policies
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Academic Peer Effects With Different Group Assignment Policies
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Author : Robert Garlick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Academic Peer Effects With Different Group Assignment Policies written by Robert Garlick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Academic achievement categories.
This paper studies the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracked or streamed assignment creates dormitories where all students obtained similar scores on high school graduation examinations. Random assignment creates dormitories that are approximately representative of the population of students. Tracking lowers students' mean grades in their first year of university and increases the variance or inequality of grades. This result is driven by a large negative effect of tracking on low-scoring students' grades and a near-zero effect on high-scoring students' grades. Low-scoring students are more sensitive to changes in their peer group composition and their grades suffer if they live only with low-scoring peers. In this setting, residential tracking has undesirable efficiency (lower mean) and equity (higher variance) effects. The result isolates a pure peer effect of tracking, whereas classroom tracking studies identify a combination of peer effects and differences in teacher behavior across tracked and untracked classrooms. The negative pure peer effect of residential tracking suggests that classroom tracking may also have negative effects unless teachers are more effective in homogeneous classrooms. Random variation in peer group composition under random dormitory assignment also generates peer effects. Living with higher-scoring peers increases students' grades and the effect is larger for low-scoring students. This is consistent with the aggregate effects of tracking relative to random assignment. However, using peer effects estimated in randomly assigned groups to predict outcomes in tracked groups yields unreliable predictions. This illustrates a more general risk that peer effects estimated under one peer group assignment policy provide limited information about how peer effects might work with a different peer group assignment policy.
Academic Peer Eects I E Effects With Dierent I E Different Group Assignment Policies
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Author : Robert James Garlick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Academic Peer Eects I E Effects With Dierent I E Different Group Assignment Policies written by Robert James Garlick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Academic achievement categories.
"This paper studies the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracked or streamed assignment creates dormitories where all students obtained similar scores on high school graduation examinations. Random assignment creates dormitories that are approximately representative of the population of students. Tracking lowers students' mean grades in their first year of university and increases the variance or inequality of grades. This result is driven by a large negative effect of tracking on low-scoring students' grades and a near-zero effect on high-scoring students' grades. Low-scoring students are more sensitive to changes in their peer group composition and their grades suffer if they live only with low-scoring peers. In this setting, residential tracking has undesirable efficiency (lower mean) and equity (higher variance) effects. The result isolates a pure peer effect of tracking, whereas classroom tracking studies identify a combination of peer effects and differences in teacher behavior across tracked and untracked classrooms. The negative pure peer effect of residential tracking suggests that classroom tracking may also have negative effects unless teachers are more effective in homogeneous classrooms. Random variation in peer group composition under random dormitory assignment also generates peer effects. Living with higher-scoring peers increases students' grades and the effect is larger for low-scoring students. This is consistent with the aggregate effects of tracking relative to random assignment. However, using peer effects estimated in randomly assigned groups to predict outcomes in tracked groups yields unreliable predictions. This illustrates a more general risk that peer effects estimated under one peer group assignment policy provide limited information about how peer effects might work with a different peer group assignment policy"--Abstract.
From Natural Variation To Optimal Policy The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
From Natural Variation To Optimal Policy The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Peer Effects In The Classroom
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Author : Margarita Pivovarova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Peer Effects In The Classroom written by Margarita Pivovarova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
The Routledge Handbook Of The Economics Of Education
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Author : Brian P. McCall
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-12-30
The Routledge Handbook Of The Economics Of Education written by Brian P. McCall and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Business & Economics categories.
The economics of education is a burgeoning area of study, employing increasingly sophisticated analytical tools to answer questions with high societal impact. Thus, the aim of this handbook is to provide readers with an up-to-date overview of the current state of the field of the economics of education and its main areas of research. This comprehensive handbook provides an authoritative overview of key theoretical and policy areas, covering topics like econometric methods for education economics, returns to education, competition in education provision, education and economic growth, and education and inequality. It reviews the current state of research from early childhood through postgraduate education as well as adult education and life-long learning. Offering a truly international perspective, the handbook benefits from a global group of contributors and attention to both developed and developing country contexts. The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education will be a valuable resource for advanced students, researchers, and policymakers across economics, education, and public policy.
Peer And Leadership Effects In Academic And Athletic Performance
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Author : Scott E. Carrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Peer And Leadership Effects In Academic And Athletic Performance written by Scott E. Carrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Many previous peer effects in higher education studies have assumed that peer groups form at the roommate, dorm floor, or dorm-level. Random assignment of students into squadrons at the US Air Force Academy allows us to identify the known peer group with which students spend a majority of their time interacting. Using the squadron as the peer group, we find peer effects of much larger magnitude than those found in the previous literature. For freshman students, a 1-point increase in peer grade point average (GPA) increases individual GPA by 0.64 to 0.73 grade points. Our results demonstrate the critical importance of properly identifying the relevant peer group when estimating peer effects. As evidence of this, we find that geographic proximity of students in dorm halls alone, as in Foster (forthcoming), does not generate measurable peer effects. We also find smaller peer effects at the roommate level, which virtually disappear once we control for the squadron-level peer effects. Our models correct for the endogeneity of individual and peer outcomes and rule out "common shocks" as the mechanism driving the peer effect.
From Natural Variation To Optimal Policy The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects
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Author : Scott E. Carrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
From Natural Variation To Optimal Policy The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects written by Scott E. Carrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Academic achievement categories.
Abstract: We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign half to peer groups with the goal of maximizing the academic performance of the lowest ability students. Our assignment algorithm uses peer effects estimates from the observational data. We find a negative and significant treatment effect for the students we intended to help. We show that within our â??optimalâ?? peer groups, students self-selected into bifurcated sub-groups with social dynamics entirely different from those in the observational data. Our results suggest that using reduced-form estimates to make out-of-sample policy predictions can lead to unanticipated outcomes
Does Your Cohort Matter
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Author : Scott E. Carrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Does Your Cohort Matter written by Scott E. Carrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Academic achievement categories.
"To estimate peer effects in college achievement we exploit a unique dataset in which individuals have been exogenously assigned to peer groups of about 30 students with whom they are required to spend the majority of their time interacting. This feature enables us to estimate peer effects that are more comparable to changing the entire cohort of peers. Using this broad peer group, we find academic peer effects of much larger magnitude than found in previous studies that have measured peer effects among roommates alone. We find the peer effects persist at a diminishing rate into the sophomore, junior, and senior years, indicating social network peer effects may have long lasting effects on academic achievement. Our findings also suggest that peer effects may be working through study partnerships versus operating through establishment of a social norm of effort"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
Handbook Of The Economics Of Education
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Author : Eric A Hanushek
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2006-11-13
Handbook Of The Economics Of Education written by Eric A Hanushek and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-13 with Business & Economics categories.
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of the current state of the topic under examination. These surveys summarize the most recent discussions in journals, and elucidate new developments. Although original material is also included, the main aim of this series is the provision of comprehensive and accessible surveys. *Every volume contains contributions from leading researchers *Each Handbook presents an accurate, self-contained survey of a particular topic *The series provides comprehensive and accessible surveys
Classroom Peer Effects And Student Achievement
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Author : Mary A. Burke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Classroom Peer Effects And Student Achievement written by Mary A. Burke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers' ability on individual student achievement with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many data sets used to study peer effects in education, ours identifies each member of a student's classroom peer group in elementary, middle, and high school as well as the classroom teacher responsible for instruction. As a result, we can control for student fixed effects simultaneously with teacher fixed effects, thereby alleviating biases due to endogenous assignment of both peers and teachers, including some dynamic aspects of assignment. Our estimation strategy, which measures the influence on individual test scores of peers' fixed characteristics (including unobserved components), also alleviates potential bias due to measurement error in peer ability. Under linear-in-means specifications, estimated peer effects are small to nonexistent, but we find sizable and significant peer effects in nonlinear models. We find that peer effects depend on an individual student's own ability and on the relative ability level of peers, results suggesting that some degree of tracking by ability may raise aggregate achievement. Estimated peer effects tend to be smaller when teacher fixed effects are included than when they are omitted, a result that emphasizes the importance of controlling for teacher inputs. We also find that classroom peers exert a greater influence on individual achievement than the broader group of grade-level peers at the same school.