Disabled Peers and Academic Achievement

Autor/inn/en	Friesen, Jane; Hickey, Ross; Krauth, Brian
Titel	Disabled Peers and Academic Achievement
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 5 (2010) 3, S.317-348 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/EDFP_a_00003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Disabilities; Students; Academic Achievement; Scores; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 4; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Longitudinal Studies; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Handicap; Behinderung; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schulleistung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Kanada
Abstract	We use data on students in grades 4-7 in the Canadian province of British Columbia to investigate the effect of having disabled peers on value-added exam outcomes. Longitudinal data for multiple cohorts of students are used together with school-by-grade-level fixed effects to account for endogenous selection into schools. Our estimates suggest that same-grade peers with learning and behavioral disabilities have an adverse effect on the test score gains of nondisabled students in British Columbia. However, these effects are statistically insignificant and are sufficiently small that they are unlikely to raise concerns about the placement of this group of disabled students. The effect of peers with other disabilities is also small and statistically insignificant but varies in sign. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10