Published in:Higher School of Economics Research Paper ; No. WP BRP 22/EDU/2014
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1 Online-Ressource (31 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2539027
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 16, 2014 erstellt
Description:
We use a national Brazilian test (SAEB) and an international test (PISA) to measure whether Brazilian students 13-15 years old improved their mathematics and language learning in1995-2012. We control for part of out-of-school influences by comparing test scores for students with similar family academic resources. Our empirical strategy is descriptive and comparative. We find that Brazilian students have made test score gains during this period on the PISA, but much less so on the SAEB. Gains on the PISA test for advantaged Brazilian students are smaller than among disadvantaged students. This is also the case for the SAEB