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- Title
Panel Data Models for School Evaluation: The Case of High Schools' Results in University Entrance Examinations.
- Authors
Salas-Velasco, Manuel
- Abstract
To what extent do high school students' course grades align with their scores on standardized college admission tests? People sometimes make the argument that grades are "inflated", but many school districts only use outcome-based descriptive methods for school evaluation. In order to answer that question, this paper proposes econometric models for panel data, which are less well-known in educational evaluation. In particular, fixed-effects and random-effects models are proposed for assessing student performance in university entrance examinations. School-level panel data analysis allows one knowing if results in college admission tests vary more between high schools than within a high school in different academic years. Another advantage of using panel data includes the ability to control for school-specific unobserved heterogeneity. For empirical implementation, official transcript data and university entrance test scores of Spanish secondary schools are used.
- Subjects
HIGH schools; COLLEGE entrance examinations; HIGH school students; SCHOOL districts; UNIVERSITY &; college admission
- Publication
Stats, 2023, Vol 6, Issue 1, p312
- ISSN
2571-905X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/stats6010019