I’m looking for good empirical work measuring the prevalence and effects of “teaching to the test.” Nothing good pops up on Google Scholar. Help!
Feb 22 2016
He [Thomas Piketty] saw five striking facts: First, ownership of private wealth--with its power to command resources, dictate where and how people would work, and shape politics--was always highly concentrated. This is the second sentence of Brad DeLong's "The Melting Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy." You migh...
Feb 22 2016
Last weekend I gave a talk up at the Liberty Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire. While there, I learned more about the Free State Movement, an idea about which I was only dimly aware. The following is from memory, so there might be a few errors. The movement began about 15 years ago when Yale grad student Jason Sore...
Feb 22 2016
I'm looking for good empirical work measuring the prevalence and effects of "teaching to the test." Nothing good pops up on Google Scholar. Help!
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Steven
Feb 22 2016 at 11:51am
Here are some papers with empirical analysis of pay-for-performance incentives for teachers, each of which at least mentions teaching to the test.
Bjorklund, Clark, Edin, Fredriksson, and Krueger (2005), The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms, Chapter 7.
Hanushek and Raymond (2005), Does school accountability lead to improved student performance?
Hendricks (2011) Performance pay and teacher selection: do performance pay programs attract higher-ability teachers?
Jackson (2010) The effects of incentive-based high-school intervention on college outcomes
Jacob (2005), Accountability, incentives and behavior: the impacts of high-stakes testing in th Chicago public schools
Jones (2013) Teacher behavior under performance pay incentives
Lavy (2002) Evaluating the effect of teachers’ group performance incentives on pupil achievement
Lavy (2008) Performance pay and teachers’ effort: Productivity and grading ethics
Neal and Whitmore-Schanzenback (2008) Left behind by design: proficiency counts and test-based accountability.
West (2012) Complementarity of incentive pay and decentralized decision making: evidence from Minnesota’s Q-Comp program for teachers
If you’re interested in the developing world, there have been a lot of RCTs.
EclectEcon
Feb 22 2016 at 2:58pm
Do market examples count as empirical evidence?
Two suggestions:
The SAT, LSAT, GMAT sample test books and courses.
The growing use of Aplia, My Econ Lab, and other on-line sources that teach directly to the test banks associated with specific textbooks.
Robert Schadler
Feb 23 2016 at 11:00am
Would think there must be something empirical with respect to bar exams.
Bill
Feb 23 2016 at 10:10pm
Some accounting departments offer a course called “CPA Review” that prepares accounting students for the CPA exam.
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