Costs of just failing high-stakes exams

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

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Abstract: School students who narrowly fail to achieve a grade C in their GCSE English exam at age 16 pay a high price, according to research by Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and colleagues. Their study concludes that young people are not getting the support they need if they fail to make the grade, even narrowly.

Keywords: high stakes examinations; manipulation; English (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-07
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