谁从缩小荣誉轨道中获益
Who Benefits from a Smaller Honors Track?
Journal of Human Resources · 2024 · [{"name": "Zachary Szlendak", "affiliation": ["Institute For Defense Analyses"]}, {"name": "Richard Mansfield", "affiliation": ["Mansfield University"]}]
中文摘要
本文刻画了改变荣誉课堂学生入学比例所产生的效率影响与分配影响。利用北卡罗来纳州高中数据，我们估计了按预测表现五分位数划分的、不同荣誉课堂入学比例对考试成绩影响的函数。我们发现，规模较小的荣誉轨道（占学生的20%—30%）会给最高五分位学生带来中等幅度的表现提升（相对于无分轨课程，约为0.05—0.07个成绩标准差），且该提升在各五分位间单调递减，至最低五分位学生已趋近于零。然而，将荣誉课堂比例扩大到30%—35%以上，仅会为中间五分位学生带来进一步的（小幅）收益，同时降低最高五分位学生的收益，并给最低五分位学生造成较大的损失。
Abstract
<h3>Abstract</h3> This paper characterizes the efficiency and distributional impact of changing the share of students enrolling in honors classrooms. Using North Carolina high school data, we estimate functions capturing the test score impact of alternative honors enrollment shares by predicted performance quintile. We find that smaller honors tracks (20%-30% of students) yield moderate performance gains for top quintile students (~.05-.07 score SDs relative to trackless courses) that decline monotonically across quintiles toward zero for bottom quintile students. However, expanding the honors share beyond 30-35% generates further (small) gains only for the middle quintile, while reducing top quintile gains and causing substantial bottom quintile losses.