Education inequalities

C Farquharson, S McNally, I Tahir - Oxford Open Economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …

Application of distance learning in mathematics through adaptive neuro-fuzzy learning method

J Stojanović, D Petkovic, IM Alarifi, Y Cao… - Computers & Electrical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The main aim of the study is analyzing of pupils' knowledge in mathematics by adaptive
neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) after implementation of distance learning application …

[HTML][HTML] Unexpected school reform: Academisation of primary schools in England

A Eyles, S Machin, S McNally - Journal of Public Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
The UK change of government in 2010 provoked a large structural change in the English
education landscape. Unexpectedly, the new government offered primary schools the …

[HTML][HTML] In search of quality and equity: The United Kingdom and Germany in the struggle for PISA scores

R Muench, O Wieczorek - International Journal of Educational Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
School reforms aiming at improving educational performance (quality), closing achievement
gaps and reducing the impact of family background on performance (equity) have been on …

Autonomous schools and strategic pupil exclusion

S Machin, M Sandi - The Economic Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This article studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can
be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. England has had two …

Away from home, better at school. The case of a British boarding school

F Foliano, F Green, M Sartarelli - Economics of Education Review, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we study whether substituting family inputs with school resources in an
academically oriented environment has an impact on achievement in high-stakes national …

Do private schools manage better?

A Bryson, F Green - National Institute Economic Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a perception among some commentators and policy analysts that leadership and
managerial practices in private schools are superior to those in state schools. Analysing a …

A distributional analysis of upper secondary school performance

J Cullinan, K Denny, D Flannery - Empirical Economics, 2021 - Springer
In many countries, the performance of young people in upper secondary education helps
determine whether or not they participate in higher education. One of the weaknesses in …

School Management Takeover, Leadership Change, and Personnel Policy

E Duchini, V Lavy, S Machin, S Telhaj - 2023 - nber.org
ABSTRACT Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and
retain good teachers. This paper studies a setting where independent organizations …

Neuro-fuzzy assessment of pupil performance based on e-learning platform implementation

D Petković, N Denić - Journal of the Institute of Electronics and …, 2020 - iecscience.org
Learning and teaching process for the both, learners and teachers, could be challenging
task since every learner has different cognitive preconditions. Hence every learner should …