Florida’s Test-Based Promotion Policy. How Does Retention Affect Students’ Academic Performance?

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: 1,0, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to provide an overview of the outcomes of the test-based promotion policy for the federal state Florida, introduced in 2002. The first chapter will deal with specific features of Florida’s test-based promotion policy, followed by the research design that was used by Schwerdt and West (2013) to evaluate the program. Afterwards, estimation results and the treatment effect are discussed, including results of Chicago’s test-based promotion policy to compare the findings of different studies.