TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerr,Sari Pekkala
AU  - Pekkarinen,Tuomas
AU  - Uusitalo,Roope
TI  - School tracking and development of cognitive skills
SN  - 0734306X
AV  - HD5706 JOU 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Chicago University
KW  - Cognitive psychology
KW  - Cognitive styles in children
KW  - Cognitive learning
N2  - The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the effect of this reform on the test scores in the Finnish Army Basic Skills test. The identification strategy relies on a differences-in-differences strategy and exploits the fact that the reform was implemented gradually across the country during a six-year period between 1972 and 1977. We find that the reform had a small positive effect on the verbal test scores but no effect on the mean performance in the arithmetic or logical reasoning tests. Still in all tests the reform improved the scores of students from families where parents had only basic education
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1086/669493
ER  -