School Accountability: (How) Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Cream-Skimming?
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School accountability: can we reward schools and avoid pupil selection?
School Accountability: Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection? School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show that the trade-off between rew...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1536399