Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90008 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7722
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide better measures of schools' contributions to student achievement. We show that while cross-sectional measures of school value added based on PISA student literacy, which measures knowledge for life, tend to be very volatile over time whenever there is a high year-to-year attrition in the student population, longitudinal measures of school value added are very robust to student attrition (even without controlling for sample selection). Moreover, persistence in individual test scores tends to be higher in highly selective (i.e. high drop-out) school environments.
Subjects: 
Italy
OECD-PISA
school value added
student attrition
JEL: 
I21
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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