Below are links to Volume 3 Chapter 4 of the Handbook of the Economics of Education. This is a review of educational research at the time of it's publication (introduction). The focus of chapter 4 are peer effects in education, which can be defined as how a student's peers (classmates, friends) affect their educational outcome.
One reason I am posting this is I keep seeing the claim that tracking or ability grouping harms low-ability students without benefiting mid- or high-ability students presented as fact. The results are much more mixed than that. Several studies find benefits for having similar-ability peers for high- and low-ability students.
The whole chapter is quite interesting and not that long. There are a few statistical models listed that you can gloss over, but there are several easy-to-read discussions of mechanisms of peer effects, the table on page 255 also quite nicely lays out the models of peer effects that are considered in the literature, and table 4.2 on pages 261-262 provides an overview of measured peer effects.
Submitted December 03, 2019 at 08:42AM by NumerousEvent https://ift.tt/2Lk2Ez3
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