Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings

Students' competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including individual school's effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in students' competencies, i.e., value-added measures. Using the...

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Main Authors:	Cipollone, Piero, Montanaro, Pasqualino, Sestito, Paolo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Analysis of Education I210 Public Sector Labor Markets J450 Labor Turnover Vacancies Layoffs J630
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5528

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spelling	okr-10986-55282021-04-23T14:02:22Z Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings Cipollone, Piero Montanaro, Pasqualino Sestito, Paolo Analysis of Education I210 Public Sector Labor Markets J450 Labor Turnover Vacancies Layoffs J630 Students' competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including individual school's effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in students' competencies, i.e., value-added measures. Using the results of an INVALSI survey on high schools, this paper implements these measures for Italy, in an attempt to identify a general pattern of value-added among schools. Purging the sample from measurement errors--which require the exclusion of schools with too few students tested--and taking into account the selection bias implied by the non-compulsory nature of the survey, we find that the positive gap in favour of general programs (licei) when looking at the level of competencies tends to vanish (in math and science) when focusing on value-added measures. By contrast, in the same subjects schools located in the Southern regions are characterized not only by a lower starting level of competencies but also by a lower value-added. For math at least, there is also a general tendency for teachers' turnover to have a negative effect on students' improvements. 2012-03-30T07:33:16Z 2012-03-30T07:33:16Z 2010 Journal Article Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 00170097 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5528 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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description	Students' competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including individual school's effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in students' competencies, i.e., value-added measures. Using the results of an INVALSI survey on high schools, this paper implements these measures for Italy, in an attempt to identify a general pattern of value-added among schools. Purging the sample from measurement errors--which require the exclusion of schools with too few students tested--and taking into account the selection bias implied by the non-compulsory nature of the survey, we find that the positive gap in favour of general programs (licei) when looking at the level of competencies tends to vanish (in math and science) when focusing on value-added measures. By contrast, in the same subjects schools located in the Southern regions are characterized not only by a lower starting level of competencies but also by a lower value-added. For math at least, there is also a general tendency for teachers' turnover to have a negative effect on students' improvements.
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author	Cipollone, Piero Montanaro, Pasqualino Sestito, Paolo
author_facet	Cipollone, Piero Montanaro, Pasqualino Sestito, Paolo
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title	Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings
title_short	Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings
title_full	Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings
title_fullStr	Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings
title_full_unstemmed	Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings
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Value-Added Measures in Italian High Schools: Problems and Findings

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