Sticky assessments – the impact of teachers’ grading standard on pupils’ school performance

Educational Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 493-518

  Keller, Tamás ^a,b,c  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b International Business School Budapest   (Hungary)

^c Kopint Tárki Institute for Economic Research Co   (Hungary)

Author keywords

educational panel data; inflated school grades; pupils effort; School performance; teachers grading standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989889043     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: 14653400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03055698.2016.1230047     Document Type: Article

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