Selective schools and academic achievement

D Clark - The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010 - degruyter.com
… the causal effects of selective schools on test scores, high school course taking and university
… enjoyed by selective school students, I show that four years of selective school attendance …

Differences in exam performance between pupils attending selective and non-selective schools mirror the genetic differences between them

E Smith-Woolley, JB Pingault, S Selzam… - npj Science of …, 2018 - nature.com
… between students attending three school types: state non-selective schools, grammar schools
and private schools. We find that selective school students have higher polygenic scores …

Selective schools

G Brunello, M Giannini - Bulletin of Economic Research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
schools run by the goverment, where individuals signal their abilities by taking an admission
test and sort into low quality and high quality schools… strategy, with schools testing academic …

Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England in Wales: What do we know?

JS Pischke, A Manning - 2006 - nber.org
… a comprehensive versus a selective school system on student … schools with students
attending selective schools. However, as we argued above, comprehensive and selective schools

The more selective, the more effective? The geographical difference of the effectiveness of selective education

B Lu, N Siddiqui - Educational Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… academically selective schools in England (grammar schoolsschools in England are
state-funded selective schools at the secondary education phase. The number of grammar schools

Can higher-achieving peers explain the benefits to attending selective schools? Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

CK Jackson - Journal of Public Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
… attending a selective school (a school with higher-achieving peers) using variation across
schools, … in peer achievement across cohorts within schools — effectively holding input quality …

[PDF][PDF] Institutionalised separation: The impact of selective schools

C Ho - 2018 - opus.lib.uts.edu.au
… from the My School website to show that selective schools are … schools in NSW, six are
selective schools. And in virtually every case, selective schools are the most advantaged school

Pupils' progress in selective and nonselective schools

B Maughan, M Rutter - School Organization, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
selective to a fully comprehensive system of secondary organization; the majority of children
attended non-selective schools, but some grammar schools … in non-selective schools could …

Selective and non-selective secondary schools: Their relative effects on ability, attainment and attitudes

A Griffin - Research in Education, 1969 - journals.sagepub.com
… in the case of comprehensive schools. A synonym for '… 'nonselective', in the sense that none
of the children in the catchment area of the school have been 'selected' to go to other schools

Admission to selective schools, alphabetically

Š Jurajda, D Münich - Economics of Education Review, 2010 - Elsevier
… We find that more selective schools indeed do display higher test scores (and presumably
ability) for those of their students who have last names sorted low in the alphabet. Table 2, …