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School Performance in Australia: Is There a Role for Quasi‐Markets?
Author(s) -
Bradley Steve,
Draca Mirko,
Green Colin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2004.00329.x
Subject(s) - league table , scope (computer science) , league , incentive , quality (philosophy) , economics , political science , public economics , business , microeconomics , computer science , classical economics , philosophy , physics , epistemology , astronomy , programming language
Recent changes to the organisation of Australia's education system have raised the possibility of implementing wide‐ranging market reforms. In this article we discuss the scope for introducing reforms similar to the United Kingdom's ‘quasi‐market’ model. We discuss the role of school league tables in providing signals and incentives in a quasi‐market. Specifically, we compare a range of unadjusted and model‐based league tables of primary school performance in Queensland's public education system. These comparisons indicate that model‐based tables which account for socio‐economic status and student intake quality vary significantly from the unadjusted tables.