Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors

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Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Rita Ramos
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10051
Resumo: A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
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spelling Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factorsSchool performanceSocioeconomic factorsAdjusted measure of school performanceEducationPortuguese9th grade exams scoreA Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsThe typical indicator used to assess school performance is average test score results. Literature has pointed out serious weaknesses of this measure as a school performance indicator. The strongest criticism resides in the bias that may exist in socially disadvantaged schools. In fact, this measure does not take into account socioeconomic and other variables which are relevant in determining student‟s school performance and out of the scope of school control. Using school level cross-section data from Portugal for 9th grade exams between 2005 and 2010, I have explicitly calculated the impact of these variables on school achievement as regards exams. I found an important causal effect between socioeconomic variables and school achievement. This implies that average test scores are an intrinsically flawed instrument. For this reason, this study proposes an adjusted measure of school performance. This measure consists of a ratio between current average school scores and expected average school scores, taking into account the reference variables by municipality.NSBE - UNLReis, Ana BalcãoSeabra, Maria do CarmoRUNAzevedo, Rita Ramos2013-07-08T13:37:10Z2011-062011-06-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/10051enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T03:43:30Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/10051Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:19:11.958130Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
title Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
spellingShingle Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
Azevedo, Rita Ramos
School performance
Socioeconomic factors
Adjusted measure of school performance
Education
Portuguese
9th grade exams score
title_short Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
title_full Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
title_fullStr Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
title_full_unstemmed Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
title_sort Critical analysis: portuguese 9th grade exam results and socioeconomic factors
author Azevedo, Rita Ramos
author_facet Azevedo, Rita Ramos
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Reis, Ana Balcão
Seabra, Maria do Carmo
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Azevedo, Rita Ramos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv School performance
Socioeconomic factors
Adjusted measure of school performance
Education
Portuguese
9th grade exams score
topic School performance
Socioeconomic factors
Adjusted measure of school performance
Education
Portuguese
9th grade exams score
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