Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?

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Autor(a) principal: Reis, Ana Balcão
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: Seabra, Carmo, Nunes, Luís Catela
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11161
Resumo: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of the effects of published school rankings based on average scores obtained by students on national exams. We study the effectiveness of this (low-stakes) accountability mechanism; we analyze whether students react to these rankings, by moving in or out of high-schools according to their scores and examine the movements of closing of schools. Our results suggest that families react strongly to published rankings. We also look at the changes in the socio-economic background of students of poorly performing schools in order to evaluate whether the publication of rankings has increased inequality, as feared by many observers. According to our results, published rankings do in fact reinforce stratification by income.
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title Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
spellingShingle Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
Reis, Ana Balcão
School accountability
School rankings
title_short Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
title_full Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
title_fullStr Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
title_full_unstemmed Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
title_sort Ranking schools: a step toward increased accountability or a mere discriminatory practice?
author Reis, Ana Balcão
author_facet Reis, Ana Balcão
Seabra, Carmo
Nunes, Luís Catela
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Nunes, Luís Catela
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Seabra, Carmo
Nunes, Luís Catela
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv School accountability
School rankings
topic School accountability
School rankings
description The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion of the effects of published school rankings based on average scores obtained by students on national exams. We study the effectiveness of this (low-stakes) accountability mechanism; we analyze whether students react to these rankings, by moving in or out of high-schools according to their scores and examine the movements of closing of schools. Our results suggest that families react strongly to published rankings. We also look at the changes in the socio-economic background of students of poorly performing schools in order to evaluate whether the publication of rankings has increased inequality, as feared by many observers. According to our results, published rankings do in fact reinforce stratification by income.
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