Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research. NBER Working Paper No. 15867

Autor/inn/en	Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research. NBER Working Paper No. 15867
Quelle	(2010) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Economic Progress; Economic Research; Age; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; Validity; Comparative Analysis; Enrollment; Age Groups; School Districts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Wirtschaftsforschung; Alter; Lebensalter; Schulleistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Gültigkeit; Einschulung; Age grop; Altersgruppe; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average scores on international tests, as are larger enrollment rates for the relevant age group. However, accounting for sample selectivity does not alter existing research findings that tested academic achievement can account for a majority of international differences in economic growth and that institutional features of school systems have important effects on international differences in student achievement. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10