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Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students' College Attendance under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments
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Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Educational Researcher, 2023
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students' College Attendance under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments
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Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Grantee Submission, 2022
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Modeling of Academic Achievement of Primary School Students in Ethiopia Using Bayesian Multilevel Approach
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Sebro, Negusse Yohannes; Goshu, Ayele Taye – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This study aims to explore Bayesian multilevel modeling to investigate variations of average academic achievement of grade eight school students. A sample of 636 students is randomly selected from 26 private and government schools by a two-stage stratified sampling design. Bayesian method is used to estimate the fixed and random effects. Input and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
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Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy – Economics of Education Review, 2012
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data from the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis to analyze to what degree violations of the strict validity assumption affect the estimation results. We show that, in case of moderate direct…
Descriptors: Validity, Bayesian Statistics, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment
Exploratory Two-Level Analysis of Individual- and School-Level Factors on Truant Youth Emotional/Psychological Functioning
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Dembo, Richard; Wareham, Jennifer; Schmeidler, James; Winters, Ken C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Research on samples of truant adolescents is limited, with little known about mental health problems among truant youths. This study provided an exploratory, multilevel examination of mental health problems for a sample of 300 truant adolescents. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a single factor of multiple mental health problems at the…
Descriptors: Truancy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Factor Analysis, Mental Health