The impact of high-stakes school admission exams on study achievements: quasi-experimental evidence from Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F17%3A00476544" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/17:00476544 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11640/17:00482113
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0643-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0643-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0643-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00148-017-0643-2</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The impact of high-stakes school admission exams on study achievements: quasi-experimental evidence from Slovakia
Original language description
We explore whether and to what extent the presence of high-stakes admission exams to selective schools affects student achievement, presumably through more intensive study effort. Our identification strategy exploits a quasi-experimental feature of a reform in Slovakia that shifted the school grade during which high-stakes exams are taken by 1 year. This reform enables us to compare students at the moment when they pass these exams with students in the same grade 1 year ahead of the exams. Using data from the low-stakes international TIMSS skills survey and employing difference-in-difference methodology, we find that the occurrence of high-stakes admission exams increased 10-year-old students’ math test scores by 0.2 standard deviations, on average. This effect additionally accrues by around 0.05 standard deviations among students with the highest probability of being admitted to selective schools. Although we find similar effects for both genders, there are indications that high-stakes exams in more competitive environments affect girls more than boys.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—

Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project
<a href="/en/project/GBP402%2F12%2FG130" target="_blank" >GBP402/12/G130: The relationships between skills, schooling and labor market outcomes: A longitudinal study</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Similar results(10)