Doris, Aedín and O’Neill, Donal and Sweetman, Olive (2022) Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings. Oxford Review of Education, 48 (6). pp. 804-826. ISSN 0305-4985

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This paper uses a rich set of student background characteristics to estimate the value added of second-level schools in Ireland. We show that there is a considerable degree of reranking of schools when we move from analysing raw outcomes to value added; in many cases the best performing schools in raw terms are not the best in value-added terms. We show that, contrary to popular perception, fee-paying schools do not add higher value than other schools. A simulation exercise suggests that if parents chose the best value-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students has the potential to increase academic achievement substantially.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	School value added; school choice;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting
Item ID:	17664
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2034611
Depositing User:	Olive Sweetman
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2023 10:09
Journal or Publication Title:	Oxford Review of Education
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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