Choice and competition in education: Do they advance performance, voice and equality?
基于60国PISA 2012数据，研究发现家长发言权、目标与绩效测量比选择与竞争更能激励学校提升学生成绩，且选择与竞争并未增强家长发言权的影响，也未带来更公平的结果。
Based on a multilevel analysis of the OECD PISA 2012 data on school test results for 60 countries, we have established that three presuppositions underlying the policy recommendation to introduce more choice and competition in education are untenable. First, rather than choice and competition, we find that parental voice and targets and performance measurement incentivize schools to improve students’ test results. Second, we do not find that choice and competition increase parental voice's impact on students’ test results. Third, we do not find that choice and competition have more equal outcomes in terms of students’ test results than has parental voice. Students from high‐ SES families not only benefit most from parental voice, but they also benefit most from choice and competition. Overall, we do not find support for the policy recommendation to shift the balance in education in the direction of the choice‐and‐competition model.