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Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This paper examines how different measures of teacher quality are related to students' long-run educational trajectories. We estimate teachers' "test-based" and "nontest" value-added (the latter based on contributions to student absences, suspensions, grade progression, and grades) and assess how these predict various student…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Learning Trajectories
Andrés Barrios-Fernández; Christopher Neilson; Seth Zimmerman – Centre for Economic Performance, 2024
Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals who gain admission to elite college programs…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Capital, Universities, Selective Admission
Holt, Janet K.; Duffy, Daniel Q. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2017
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) sought to identify those institutions helping students overcome barriers to college completion and achieve a livable wage. This analysis of Illinois 4-year postsecondary institutions highlights those institutions which fostered degree completion and job success with less debt for underrepresented…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Colleges
Holt, Janet K.; Duffy, Daniel Q. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2017
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) sought to identify those institutions helping students overcome barriers to college completion and achieve a livable wage. This analysis of Illinois 4-year postsecondary institutions highlights those institutions which fostered degree completion and job success with less debt for underrepresented…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Colleges
Bowen, William G.; Bok, Derek – 1998
This book examines issues of race in college admission through analysis of data from the College and Beyond database, a study of the college careers and subsequent lives of over 45,000 students of all races who had attended academically selective universities between the 1970s and early 1990s. The book examines how much race-sensitive admissions…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Decision Making, Educational Policy