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dc.contributor.author | Arenas Jal, Andreu | - |
dc.contributor.author | Calsamiglia, Caterina | - |
dc.contributor.author | Loviglio, Annalisa | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-03T08:54:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08-01 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0272-7757 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/186209 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 inhibited face-to-face education and constrained exam taking. In many countries worldwide, high-stakes exams happening at the end of the school year determine college admissions. This paper investigates the impact of using historical data of school and high-stakes exams results to train a model to predict high-stakes exams given the available data in the Spring. The most transparent and accurate model turns out to be a linear regression model with high school GPA as the main predictor. Further analysis of the predictions reflect how high-stakes exams relate to GPA in high school for different subgroups in the population. Predicted scores slightly advantage females and low SES individuals, who perform relatively worse in high-stakes exams than in high school. Our preferred model accounts for about 50% of the out-of-sample variation in the high-stakes exam. On average, the student rank using predicted scores differs from the actual rank by almost 17 percentiles. This suggests that either high-stakes exams capture individual skills that are not measured by high school grades or that high-stakes exams are a noisy measure of the same skill. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | - |
dc.relation.isformatof | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102143 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Economics of Education Review, 2021, vol. 83, num. 102143 | - |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102143 | - |
dc.rights | cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier, 2021 | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | - |
dc.source | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) | - |
dc.subject.classification | COVID-19 | - |
dc.subject.classification | Avaluació educativa | - |
dc.subject.classification | Proves d'accés a la universitat | - |
dc.subject.classification | Anàlisi de regressió | - |
dc.subject.other | COVID-19 | - |
dc.subject.other | Educational evaluation | - |
dc.subject.other | Entrance examinations for universities | - |
dc.subject.other | Regression analysis | - |
dc.title | What is at stake without high-stakes exams? Students' evaluation and admission to college at the time of COVID-19 | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | - |
dc.identifier.idgrec | 713499 | - |
dc.date.updated | 2022-06-03T08:54:25Z | - |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess | - |
dc.embargo.lift | 2024-08-01 | - |
dc.date.embargoEndDate | info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2024-08-01 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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