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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 revisit and substantially extend the evidence on the importance of instruction time for student achievement on international assessments. We first successfully replicate the estimate of a positive effect of weekly instruction time in the seminal paper by Lavy (Economic Journal, 125, F397-F424) in a narrow sense. We then extend the analysis to data from other international student assessments and find effects that are consistently smaller in magnitude. We provide suggestive evidence that this divergence is partly due to different measurement of instruction time in the data used in the original paper. Our results suggest that differences in instruction time play a less important role than previously thought for explaining international gaps in student achievement.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2020-09-03

Language

English

Publication/Series

Working Papers

Issue

2020:18

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • instruction time
  • student achievement
  • PISA
  • TIMSS
  • I21

Status

Published