The relationship between school violence and student proficiency
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Resumo: | School violence has recently become a central concern among teachers, students, students' parents and policymakers. Violence can induce behaviors on educational agents that go against the goals of improving the quality of education and increasing school attendance. In fact, there is evidence that school environmental characteristics and student performance and behavior at school are related. Although school violence may have a direct impact on students’ performance, such impact has not yet been quantified. In this paper, we investigate this issue using Brazilian data and show that, on average, students who attended more violent schools had worse proficiency on a centralized test carried out by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, even when we controlled for school, class, teachers and student characteristics. We also show that school violence affects more the students from the bottom of the proficiency distribution. Furthermore, we find out that besides the direct effect on student proficiency, it seems that school violence has an indirect effect on it operating through teacher turnover. Indeed, we show that the occurrence of violent episodes in a school decreases the probability of a class in that school having only one teacher during the academic year, and increases the probability of that class having more than one teacher (teacher turnover). |
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Severnini, EdsonFirpo, Sergio PinheiroEscolas::EESP2010-07-01T13:45:04Z2010-07-01T13:45:04Z2010-07-01http://hdl.handle.net/10438/6866School violence has recently become a central concern among teachers, students, students' parents and policymakers. Violence can induce behaviors on educational agents that go against the goals of improving the quality of education and increasing school attendance. In fact, there is evidence that school environmental characteristics and student performance and behavior at school are related. Although school violence may have a direct impact on students’ performance, such impact has not yet been quantified. In this paper, we investigate this issue using Brazilian data and show that, on average, students who attended more violent schools had worse proficiency on a centralized test carried out by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, even when we controlled for school, class, teachers and student characteristics. We also show that school violence affects more the students from the bottom of the proficiency distribution. Furthermore, we find out that besides the direct effect on student proficiency, it seems that school violence has an indirect effect on it operating through teacher turnover. 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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency Severnini, Edson School violence Student proficiency Teacher turnover Economia Economia |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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The relationship between school violence and student proficiency |
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Severnini, Edson |
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Severnini, Edson Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro |
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Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro |
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Severnini, Edson Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro |
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School violence Student proficiency Teacher turnover |
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School violence Student proficiency Teacher turnover Economia Economia |
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Economia |
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Economia |
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