Paper #255

Title:

Algunos factores que inciden en el rendimiento y en la evaluación de los alumnos en las PAAU

Authors:

Anna Cuxart, Manuel Martí and Ferran Ferrer

Date:

January 1998

Abstract:

The context where the university admissions exams are performed is presented and the main concerns about this exams are outlined and discussed from a statistical point of view. The paper offers an illustration of the use of random coefficient models in the study of educational data. The association between two individual scores (one internal and the other external to the school) and the effect of the school in the external exam is analized by a regression model with random intercept and fixed slope. A variance component model for the analysis of the grading process is also presented. The paper ends with an outline of the main findings and the presentation of some specific proposals to improve and control the equity of the system. Some pedagogic reflections are also included.

Keywords:

PAAU exams, COU' scores, admisssions process, random coefficient models, variance component models, rater reliability

JEL codes:

C89, I19

Area of Research:

Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics

Published in:

Revista de educacion, 314, (1998), pp. 63-68

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