Socioeconomic status or noise? Tradeoffs in the generation of school quality information

Alejandra Mizala (), Pilar Romaguera and Miguel Urquiola

No 225, Documentos de Trabajo from Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile

Abstract: This paper calculates a time series of simple, standard measures of schools’ relative performance. These are drawn from a 1997-2004 panel of Chilean schools, using individual-level information on test scores and student characteristics for each year. The results suggest there is a stark tradeoff in the extent to which rankings generated using these measures: i) can be shown to be very similar to rankings based purely on students’ socioeconomic status, and ii) are very volatile from year to year. At least in Chile, therefore, producing a meaningful ranking of schools that may inform parents and policymakers may be harder than is commonly assumed.

Date: 2006
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