I have some news I’m very happy about.
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Jake Anders
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Education, evaluation, economics, etc. | Professor of Quantitative Social Science @cepeo_ucl, UCL | PI of COSMO study | Dad to two | Reblog ≠ endorse.
Read our working paper and let us know what you think: https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucl:cepeow:23-07
We're still actively working on this, so your thoughts and suggestions are much appreciated.
EconPapers: Experimental education research: rethinking why, how and when to use random assignment
By Sam Sims, Jake Anders, Matthew Inglis, Hugues Lortie-Forgues, Ben Styles and Ben Weidmann; Abstract: Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomised experiments with the goal of
"Two-thirds of this gap is due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families".
Those differences right at the top? Driven by (among other things) preferences to children of alumni. To someone not in the US, that's just insane.
I’ll be contributing to this COSMO webinar aimed particularly at university admissions departments.
Using COSMO findings, our webinar will provide useful context for this year's admissions decisions.
We will also discuss how we can help this cohort of young people with their move into higher education.
Register now ⤵️
Pleased to have been part of an interesting and important discussion on digital exclusion with @[email protected] and fellow panelists. You can watch the session here: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/54a1036e-14b4-492e-86b5-e71b92a553e5
The briefing highlights important ongoing links between COVID and young people’s life chances. Young people who reported having experienced severe Long COVID received lower teacher-assessed GCSEs than their peers who had never had COVID-19, for example.
Very pleased to see @[email protected] recognising the value of existing and new cohort studies, including our @[email protected] at @cepeo_ucl @[email protected] @[email protected], for understanding social mobility in the years ahead: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-for-social-mobility-improving-the-collection-and-availability-of-data-across-government/data-for-social-mobility-improving-the-collection-and-availability-of-data-across-government
