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Anticipatory effects of curriculum tracking

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Kristian Koerselman () (Department of Economics and Statistics, Abo Akademi University)

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Curriculum tracking, the separation of secondary school students into academic and vocational tracks, correlates positively with pretracking achievement in both British and international data. I argue that this correlation is caused by the incentives emanating from the track placement decision. Using test score data collected in TIMSS 1995 and 2003, and in PIRLS 2001 and 2006, I investigate the effect of tracking on the early achievement distribution empirically, amongst others by means of quantile regression. The evidence presented in this paper implicates that previous valueadded estimates of the net impact of tracking may be biased.

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Paper provided by Aboa Centre for Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 47.

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Keywords: curriculum tracking; ability streaming; anticipatory effects; high-stakes testing;

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I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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  1. Tuomas Pekkarinen, 2005. "Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 1897, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  3. Pekkarinen, Tuomas & Uusitalo, Roope & Kerr, Sari, 2009. "School tracking and development of cognitive skills," Working Paper Series 2009:6, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. [Downloadable!]
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  4. John H. Bishop, 1998. "The Effect of Curriculum-Based External Exit Exam Systems on Student Achievement," Journal of Economic Education, Helen Dwight Reid Foundation, vol. 29(2), pages 171-182. [Downloadable!]
  5. Ammermüller,Andreas, 2005. "Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions," Research Memoranda 004, Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Andreas Ammermueller & Jörn-Steffen Pischke, 2006. "Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS," IZA Discussion Papers 2077, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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