Classroom Peer Effects And Student Achievement Working Paper 08 5
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Classroom Peer Effects And Student Achievement Working Paper 08 5
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Author : Mary A. Burke
language : en
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Release Date : 2008
Classroom Peer Effects And Student Achievement Working Paper 08 5 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 2008 with categories.
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers on individual student performance with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets used to study peer effects in education, our data set allow us to identify each member of a given 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 individual student fixed effects simultaneously with individual teacher fixed effects, thereby alleviating biases due to endogenous assignment of both peers and teachers, including some dynamic aspects of such assignments. Our estimation strategy, which focuses on the influence of peers' fixed characteristics--both observed and unobserved--on individual test score gains, also alleviates potential biases due to error in measuring peer quality, simultaneity of peer outcomes, and mean reversion. Under linear-in-means specifications, estimated peer effects are small to non-existent, but we find some sizable and significant peer effects within non-linear models. For example, we find that peer effects depend on an individual student's own ability and on the ability level of the peers under consideration, results that suggest Pareto-improving redistributions of students across classrooms and/or schools. Estimated peer effects tend to be smaller when teacher fixed effects are included than when they are omitted, a result that suggests co-movement of peer and teacher quality effects within a student over time. We also find that peer effects tend to be stronger at the classroom level than at the grade level. (Appended to this document is "Comparison of Estimation Methods Using Simulated Data." Contains 28 footnotes and 10 tables.).
Classroom Peer Effects And Student Achievement
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Author : Mary A. Burke
language : en
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Release Date : 2008
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 2008 with categories.
Classroom Peer Effects And Academic Achievement
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Author : Katherine Grace Carman
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Classroom Peer Effects And Academic Achievement written by Katherine Grace Carman 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.
This paper estimates peer effects on student achievement using a panel data set from a middle school in China. Unique features of the organization of Chinese middle schools (Grades 7 to 9) and panel data allow us to overcome difficulties that have hindered the separation of peer effects from omitted individual factors due to self-selection and from common teacher effects and to identify peer effects at the classroom level. We estimate peer effects for Math, English, Chinese, and overall test scores separately. In a linear-in-means model controlling for both individual and teacher-by-test fixed effects, peers are found to have a positive and significant effect on math and overall test scores and a positive but insignificant effect on Chinese test scores, but no effect on English test scores. Importantly, students at the middle of the ability distribution tend to benefit from better peers, whereas students at the ends of the ability distribution do not suggesting that policy makers who want to exploit positive peer effects face difficult tradeoffs in classroom and school assignment.
Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement
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Author : Eric Alan Hanushek
language : en
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Release Date : 2001
Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement written by Eric Alan Hanushek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Academic achievement categories.
Empirical analysis of peer effects on student achievement has been open to question because of the difficulties of separating peer effects from other confounding influences. While most econometric attention has been directed at issues of simultaneous determination of peer interactions, we argue that issues of omitted and mismeasured variables are likely to be more important. We control for the most important determinants of achievement that will confound peer estimates by removing student and school-by-grade fixed effects in addition to observable family and school characteristics. The analysis also addresses the reciprocal nature of peer interactions and the interpretation of estimates based upon models using past achievement as the measure of peer group quality. The results indicate that peer achievement has a positive effect on achievement growth. Moreover, students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates. On the other hand, the variance in achievement appears to have no systematic effect
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
Peer Effects In Disadvantaged Primary Schools
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Author : Heather Antecol
language : en
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Release Date : 2013
Peer Effects In Disadvantaged Primary Schools written by Heather Antecol 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.
We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment in seven states. Contrary to the existing literature, we find that the average classroom peer achievement adversely influences own student achievement in math and reading in linear-in-means models. Extending our analysis to take into account the potential non-linearity in the peer effects leads to non-negligible differences along the achievement distribution. We test several models of peer effects to further understand their underlying mechanisms.While we find no evidence to support the monotonicity model and little evidence in favor of the ability grouping model, we find stronger evidence to support the frame of reference and the invidious comparison models. Moreover, we also find that higher achieving classes improve teaching performance in math. Finally, using a simple policy experiment we find suggestive evidence that tracking students by ability potentially benefits students who end up in a low achievement class while hurting students in a high achievement class.
Handbook Of The Economics Of Education
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Author : Eric A. Hanushek
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2010-11-11
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 2010-11-11 with Education categories.
How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the determinants of educational outcomes and issues surrounding teacher salaries and licensure. And reflecting government demands for more evidence-based policies, they take new looks at institutional feaures of school systems. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work. In conjunction with Volume 4, they measure our current understanding of educational acquisition and its economic and social effects. Uses rich data to study issues of high contemporary policy relevance Demonstrates how education serves as an important determinant of economic and social outcomes Benefits from the globalization of research in the economics of education
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement In China S Secondary Schools
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Author : Weili Ding
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement In China S Secondary Schools written by Weili Ding and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Academic achievement categories.
"Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper firmly establishes a link between peer performance and student achievement, using a unique dataset from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the variation of peer performance increases achievement; and our semi-parametric estimates clarify the tradeoffs facing policymakers in exploiting positive peers effects to increase future achievement"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Peer Effects And Human Capital Accumulation
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Author : Anna Aizer
language : en
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Release Date : 2008
Peer Effects And Human Capital Accumulation written by Anna Aizer 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.
Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while holding peer achievement constant. Improvements in peer behavior increase student achievement. Moreover, resources mitigate the negative effects of peer behavior. These findings imply that the optimal response in the presence of peer effects is not necessarily to reorganize classrooms. Rather, existing institutions can modify peer effects by improving behavior and/or mitigating the impact of poor behavior.
On The Nature Of Peer Effects In Academic Achievement
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Author : Jan Feld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
On The Nature Of Peer Effects In Academic Achievement written by Jan Feld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.