Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233263 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion paper No. 47
Publisher: 
Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE), Turku
Abstract: 
Curriculum tracking, the separation of secondary school students into academic and vocational tracks, correlates positively with pretracking achievement in both British and international data. I argue that this correlation is caused by the incentives emanating from the track placement decision. Using test score data collected in TIMSS 1995 and 2003, and in PIRLS 2001 and 2006, I investigate the effect of tracking on the early achievement distribution empirically, amongst others by means of quantile regression. The evidence presented in this paper implicates that previous valueadded estimates of the net impact of tracking may be biased.
Subjects: 
curriculum tracking
ability streaming
anticipatory effects
high-stakes testing
JEL: 
I21
I28
J08
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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