Panel Data Models for School Evaluation: The Case of High Schools’ Results in University Entrance Examinations

To what extent do high school students’ course grades align with their scores on standardized college admission tests? People sometimes make the argument that are “inflated”, but many districts only use outcome-based descriptive methods for evaluation. In order to answer question, this paper proposes econometric models panel data, which less well-known in educational particular, fixed-effects and random-effects proposed assessing student performance university entrance examinations. School-level data analysis allows one knowing if results tests vary more between schools than within a different academic years. Another advantage of using includes ability control school-specific unobserved heterogeneity. For empirical implementation, official transcript test Spanish secondary used.