Carrot and stick?: Impact of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement. Woo, S., Lee, S., & Kim, K. Economics Letters.
Paper doi abstract bibtex A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit improvement. Although the program does not include high-stakes consequences, our estimates indicate that the program reduced the share of underperforming students by 18 percent. This paper’s results suggest that to improve student achievement, a school accountability program does not need to set high-stakes consequences that potentially induce unwanted strategic behaviors on the part of school workers.
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title = {Carrot and stick?: {Impact} of a low-stakes school accountability program on student achievement},
issn = {0165-1765},
shorttitle = {Carrot and stick?},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176515004097},
doi = {10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.007},
abstract = {A key concern in the design of education policies relates to the structure of incentives in accountability systems. This paper examines a school accountability program that provides financial support to low-performing schools but has no direct punishment scheme for recipients who do not exhibit improvement. Although the program does not include high-stakes consequences, our estimates indicate that the program reduced the share of underperforming students by 18 percent. This paper’s results suggest that to improve student achievement, a school accountability program does not need to set high-stakes consequences that potentially induce unwanted strategic behaviors on the part of school workers.},
urldate = {2015-10-26},
journal = {Economics Letters},
author = {Woo, Seokjin and Lee, Soohyung and Kim, Kyunghee},
keywords = {Fuzzy regression discontinuity design, School accountability, School performance, Student achievement},
file = {ScienceDirect Snapshot:files/52639/S0165176515004097.html:text/html}
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