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.
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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education finance, performance targets, test scores
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2282-6483
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Document type
Monograph
(Working Paper)
Creators
Keywords
education finance, performance targets, test scores
Subjects
ISSN
2282-6483
DOI
Deposit date
28 Jan 2016 11:39
Last modified
28 Jan 2016 11:39
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