How do Performance Targets Affect Future Performance by Students and Schools?

Sartarelli, Marcello ; Tampieri, Alessandro (2011) How do Performance Targets Affect Future Performance by Students and Schools? Bologna: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE, p. 17. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4481. In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE (760). ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent achievement in education and the take-up by schools of financial support from the government for students. We build a theoretical model to describe the channels through which students' belief of their ability, as proxied by previous performance in tests, affect their current effort in preparing for a test, and how previous performance affects the effort in teaching by a school. We find that an increase in the performance target in the first test has an ambiguous effect on the effort exerted for the second test. A higher performance target in the current test increases the effort of low-ability students and teaching effort for low ability students, while it has an ambiguous effect on high ability ones. Finally, an increase in government funding per student increases the effort by students.

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Monografia (Working paper)
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Sartarelli, Marcello
Tampieri, Alessandro
Parole chiave
education finance, performance targets, test scores
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2282-6483
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