In this project, we calculate value-added scores to measure the quality of schools, making comparisons with other quality measures and student outcomes after graduation.
| Project manager: |
Henrik Jordahl |
| Participants: |
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren
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The Swedish education system lacks rigorous measures of school quality. Systematic quality improvement in schools and municipalities rests on the ability to compare schools and track the development of quality. In the project, we calculate value-added scores for schools in Sweden. Value-added scores are an established measure of school quality in the research literature but have hardly come to practical use in the Swedish education system. Value-added scores measure the extent to which schools’ students perform better than what is expected, given their previous results as well as their background characteristics.
Our goal is to calculate value-added scores for as many Swedish schools as possible. The value-added scores can then be compared with other measures of school quality and student outcomes after graduation. We hope that the value-added approach will win acceptance among schools and come to use in systematic quality improvement.
The project is financed within the research program The Economics of the Service Sector and the applied parts of the project also from the organizations that take part in them including IES and Kunskapsskolan.
Time Period: 2020–
Policy reports
Heller Sahlgren, G. and H. Jordahl (2020). “The Value Added of Internationella Engelska Skolan”. IFN Policy Paper, No. 89.
Heller Sahlgren, G. and H. Jordahl (2020). “Förädlingsvärdet för Kunskapsskolans grundskolor”. IFN Policy Paper, No. 90.