The Cost of Retention under a Test-Based Promotion Policy for Taxpayers and Students

Autor/in	Winters, Marcus A.
Titel	The Cost of Retention under a Test-Based Promotion Policy for Taxpayers and Students
Quelle	In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 45 (2023) 4, S.688-695 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3737
DOI	10.3102/01623737221138041
Schlagwörter	High Stakes Tests; Grade Repetition; Grade 3; Elementary School Students; Social Promotion; Educational Policy; Taxes; Intervention; Expenditures; Mathematical Formulas; Cost Effectiveness; Labor Market; State Policy; Policy Analysis; Outcomes of Education; Salary Wage Differentials; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Repeat a school year; Repeating; Sitzen bleiben; Sitzenbleiben; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Soziale Unterstützung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Abgabe; Ausgaben; Mathematische Formel; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Politikfeldanalyse; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	Prior research substantially overstates the cost of retention under test-based promotion policies to both taxpayers and students who delay labor market entry because it omits two important factors. First, there is a delay between the intervention and the taxpayer's expenditure. Second, on average, the treatment leads to less than a full year of additional schooling. I provide formulas for calculating the cost of grade retention within a test-based promotion policy and illustrate using data from Florida. Retaining a third-grade student under Florida's policy was about 45% less costly to taxpayers and about 37% less costly to retained students than would be suggested by prior authors. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01