Can less be more? Instruction time and attainment in English secondary schools: Evidence from panel data
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How to best utilize curriculum time has long been a question for England’s schools, which are free vary between subjects or extend the school day/week. This now risen national prominence as policymakers consider ways help support students catch up lost learning after COVID-19 pandemic. article explores relationship instruction on General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) attainment and value-added scores 2,815 English secondary schools using panel data from 2010–14 School Workforce Census. Robust estimates suggest that small effect in each English, mathematics, science humanities. Based sub-group analysis, effects sizes also estimated with varying prior achievement those receipt meals. These too appear small, suggesting, vis-à-vis instructional time, sometimes less might be more.
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عنوان ژورنال: London Review of Education
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1474-8479', '1474-8460']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/lre.19.1.17