Early school entrance and middle-run academic performance in Mexico: evidence for 15-year-old students from the PISA test
| Autor: | Flor E. Martínez-Rodríguez, Ernesto Aguayo-Téllez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Younger age
Academic year Age differences School-entry age media_common.quotation_subject ACADEMIC performance 05 social sciences education PISA 050301 education Percentage point Relative-age effect Academic achievement lcsh:Education (General) Education Test (assessment) Student assessment Reading (process) 0502 economics and business 050207 economics lcsh:L7-991 0503 education Mexico media_common Demography |
| Zdroj: | Large-scale Assessments in Education, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2196-0739 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40536-020-00089-8 |
| Popis: | Using an unanticipated policy reform in Mexico that shifted 4 months the cutoff date for elementary school eligibility in 2006 and information on academic performance of 15-year-old students from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2018 survey, who entered first grade in 2006, this paper estimates the effects of starting first grade without having reached 6 years of age on middle-run academic performance. We found that entering school at a younger age increases the probability of having repeated at least one academic year by 7 percentage points and reduces academic performance (measured throughout PISA’s score points) between 6 and 10 score points in mathematics, reading and science (a Cohen’s d effect size between 0.06 and 0.10). We did not find evidence to claim that the effect of early entrance on academic performance is different for girls and boys or for urban and rural locations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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