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This paper examines the effectiveness of equity-promoting policies under Singapore’s 2012 education reform in bridging ethnic and socioeconomic achievement gaps. Using data from two international standardized tests (PISA and TIMSS), I employ a difference-in-differences model to track the evolution of achievement gaps from 2003 to 2019. The ethnic gap in science among Grade 4 Malay and non-Malay ... read morestudents was reduced by 32.3% by 2019. The science performance of Grade 4 students from the bottom four socioeconomic quintiles, relative to the top quintile, improved by 27.0%, 44.2%, 95.4%, and 98.0%, respectively, by 2019. There was, however, substantially less decline in the achievement gap among older students and in the subject of math. Also, the effect of the policy increases with time since reform. For instance, the closing of the ethnic gap among Grade 4 students in science increased from 19.6% in 2015 to 32.3% in 2019.
Thesis (B.S.)--Tufts University, 2022.
Submitted to the Dept. of Economics.
Advisor: Thomas Downes.read less
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