Estimating the Impact of the Specialist Schools Programme on Secondary School Examination Results in England*
评估英格兰专科学校计划对16岁学生考试成绩的影响，发现专科学校成绩略好于非专科学校，但效果远小于以往研究，且未产生不利分配后果。
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of the specialist schools programme in England on examination performance at age 16. Two approaches are used. The first uses pupil‐level data from the 2003 National Pupil Database. The second uses panel data methods and is based on time‐series data for secondary schools during 1992–2003. The paper also investigates the distributional consequences of the specialist schools programme. Specialist schools perform marginally better than their non‐specialist counterparts (especially in science, business studies and technology) but by much less than is indicated by previous studies. The programme does not appear to have had adverse distributional consequences.