The male–female gap in post-baccalaureate school quality

The male–female gap in post-baccalaureate school quality

Women are less likely than men to earn degrees from high quality post-baccalaureate programs, and this tendency has been growing over time. I show that, aside from the biomedical sciences, this cannot be explained by changes in the type of program where women tend to earn degrees. Instead, sorting by quality within degree program is the main contributor to the growing gap. Most of this sorting ...

Online Appendices to The Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality

My primary source of institutional data is the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the census of institutions of higher education receiving federal financial aid in the U.S. I use IPEDS completions data between 1985 (when it began to count degrees earned by men and women separately) and 2006. The data includes the entire population of individuals earning a degree in a given ...

School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement

on the teacher-generated v.s. leaner-generated noticing-the-gap activities in language classes

abstract the purpose of this study is twofold: on the one hand, it is intended to see what kind of noticing-the –gap activity (teacher generated vs. learner generated) is more efficient in teaching l2 grammar in classroom language learning. on the other hand, it is an attempt to determine which approach of the noticing-the-gap- activity is more effective in the long- term retention of grammar...

School Quality and the Black - White Achievement Gap Eric

Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Sizeable achievement differences by race as of 1 grade and test error complicate any investigation of this issue, because average test score growth rates may differ across the distribution depending upon the test instrument, curriculum, and other factors. Texas administrative data show that the...