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Jan Bietenbeck . Photo

Jan Bietenbeck

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Jan Bietenbeck . Photo

New evidence on the importance of instruction time for student achievement on international assessments

Author

  • Jan Bietenbeck
  • Matthew Collins

Summary, in English

We re-examine the importance of instruction time for student achievement on international assessments. We successfully replicate the positive effect of weekly instruction time in the seminal paper by Lavy (Economic Journal, 125, F397-F424) in a narrow sense. Extending the analysis to other international assessments, we find effects that are consistently smaller in magnitude. We provide evidence that this discrepancy might be partly due to a different way of measuring instruction time in the data used in the original paper. Our results suggest that differences in instruction time are less important than previously thought for explaining international gaps in student achievement.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

423-431

Publication/Series

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volume

38

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • instruction time
  • PISA
  • student achievement
  • TIMSS

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0883-7252