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Doris, Aedín, 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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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2034611
Abstract
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 |
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| Keywords: | School value added; school choice; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting |
| Item ID: | 17664 |
| Identification Number: | 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 |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/17664 |
| 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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