The Effects of the California High School Exit Exam Requirement on Student Achievement, Persistence, and Graduation

Autor/inn/en	Reardon, Sean F.; Atteberry, Allison; Arshan, Nicole; Kurlaender, Michal
Institution	Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
Titel	The Effects of the California High School Exit Exam Requirement on Student Achievement, Persistence, and Graduation
Quelle	(2009), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Graduation Rate; Academic Persistence; Exit Examinations; School Districts; Grade 10; High School Students; Academic Achievement; Longitudinal Studies; Educational Policy; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; School district; Schulbezirk; High schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schulleistung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Kalifornien
Abstract	In this paper, the authors estimate the effect of a high school exit exam requirement (relative to no requirement) on students' academic achievement, persistence in high school, and graduation rates. They are particularly interested in the effects of the policy on the students who have low initial skill levels in high school. The study is based on data from four large California districts--Fresno, Long Beach, San Diego, and San Francisco Unified School Districts--to investigate the effects of failing the California High School Exit Exam. These are four of the eight largest school districts in California, collectively enrolling over 110,000 new high school students (about 5.5 percent of high school students in the state) annually. They use three years of longitudinal data from students who were in 10th grade in the Spring of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (i.e., they use data from 2003-2008). (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 2040 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. Tel: 202-495-0920; Fax: 202-640-4401; e-mail: inquiries@sree.org; Web site: http://www.sree.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10