Arbeitspapier

Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results indicate substantial compensatory sorting within and especially between schools in many countries. Only the United States, a country with decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school sorting is more compensatory in systems with ability tracking. Within-school sorting is more compensatory when administrators rather than teachers assign students to classrooms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 744

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education: Government Policy
National Government Expenditures and Education
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
Thema
student sorting
class size
educational achievement
Schüler
Bildungsniveau
Allgemeinbildende Schule
Schätzung
Welt
Klassengröße
TIMSS

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Woessmann, Ludger
West, Martin R.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2003

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • West, Martin R.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2003

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