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Comparing Propensity Score Methodologies for Analyzing High School Class Assignment
thesis
posted on 2014-05-01, 00:00 authored by Zach BransonStudents’ class assignment is extremely relevant to their academic achievement, but the problem
of assigning a student to the correct classroom is difficult to assess. For example, it may not be
readily clear whether a student should be placed in remedial, regular, or advanced math classes,
but it could greatly affect how well a student does in school. Maybe a remedial-level student is
placed in a regular-level class and does poorly as a result; or maybe an advanced-level student is
placed in a regular-level class and doesn’t do as well as they could. How can we determine the
classes that students should be assigned to? This is the question we will try to answer; and we
will see that, as a result, we will have to thoroughly evaluate several statistical techniques in
order to properly answer this question.
History
Date
2014-05-01Advisor(s)
Howard SeltmanDepartment
- Statistics