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dc.contributor.authorChowdhury, Mishuk Anwaren_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-08-23T01:56:26Z
dc.date.available2007-08-23T01:56:26Z
dc.date.issued2007-08-23T01:56:26Z
dc.date.submittedDecember 2006en_US
dc.identifier.otherDISS-1578en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/291
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes school's responses to high stakes testing. Using a grade level panel dataset from Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) for reading and math tests for 2003 through 2006, to find schools responses to failure. I find that there is a tendency for schools to shift resources from subjects that they pass to subjects that they fail. I classify schools' responses as either substitution responses or scale responses. A school has a substitution response if, when it fails to meet the state's required passing rate threshold for one subject for one cohort of students, it shifts resources to that subject for that cohort of students and away from subjects and cohorts for which its passing rate is above the threshold. Scale responses correspond to increases in resources for all subjects for a cohort of students that fail a subject. I find evidence for both substitution responses and scale responses, and I find that substitution responses are larger than scale responses.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGrant, Darrenen_US
dc.language.isoENen_US
dc.publisherEconomicsen_US
dc.titleSchool Responses To High-stakes Testingen_US
dc.typeM.A.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeChairGrant, Darrenen_US
dc.degree.departmentEconomicsen_US
dc.degree.disciplineEconomicsen_US
dc.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Arlingtonen_US
dc.degree.levelmastersen_US
dc.degree.nameM.A.en_US


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