School Choice and Performance

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• MUHAMMED ALİ YILDIRIM

The prevalent affirmative action policy in school choice limits the number of admitted majority students to give minority students higher chances to attend their desired schools. There have been numerous efforts to reconcile affirmative action policies with celebrated matching mechanisms such as the deferred acceptanc…

• MUHAMMED ALİ YILDIRIM

In this study we focus on math anxiety, comparing its dimensions, levels, and relationship with mathematics achievement across samples of 6th-grade students from China, Taiwan, and the United States. The results of confirmatory factor analyses supported the theoretical distinction between affective and cognitive dimen…

Education is a top priority of the European Union (EU). The EU Education Council has declared that to be the world leader in terms of the quality of education and training systems by 2010, fundamental transformations in education should be carried out in each country according to its national context and traditions. A…

• RAHİME ZEYNEP CEMALCILAR

Abstract We study the effect of elementary school teachers’ beliefs about gender roles on student achievement. We exploit a natural experiment where teachers are prevented from self-selecting into schools, and, conditional on school, students are allocated to teachers randomly. We show that girls who are taught for lo…

• SEDA ERTAÇ GÜLER

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• FUNDA ERDOĞDU

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• AYHAN KÜRŞAT ERBAŞ

The purpose of this study is to examine relationships among the such variables as socioeconomic status, math self-efficacy, anxiety, and mathematics achievement using structural equation modeling. A sample group of 8,806 students from England, Greece, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the USA participated in the…

• DİLARA BAKAN KALAYCIOĞLU

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• HATİCE AYŞE HOŞGÖR

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997—which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure— on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural residents using the Turkish…

This article examines the effects of social capital on the likelihood of dropping out from the compulsory education system (Grades One through Eight) in Turkey. It focuses on the question of whether school-related social capital can provide the means to stay in school in the presence of risk factors such as socioecono…

• RAHİME ZEYNEP CEMALCILAR