The contribution of schooling to the cognitive development of secondary education students in Cyprus: An application of regression discontinuity with multiple cut-off points

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-186

  Kyriakides, Leonidas ^a   Luyten, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Effect of schooling; Methodology of educational effectiveness research; Multilevel modelling; Regression discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749088138     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243450902883870     Document Type: Article

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