Returns to Education: Taking Account of Employers' Perceptions and Use of Educational Credentials

Breen, Richard; Hannan, Damian F.; O'Leary, Richard

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036349

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“…The Irish secondary system is comprised of a three year lower secondary programme, at the end of which students take a nationally standardised examination, the Junior Certificate. Performance in the Junior Certificate exam is predictive of access to employment and training for those who leave school at this stage (Breen, Hannan and O'Leary 1995;Byrne, McCoy and Watson 2009). For those who remain in school, the grades achieved influence access to higher subject levels and even to particular subjects (Author 2011).…”

Section: The Irish Educational Systemmentioning

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High stakes testing and student perspectives on teaching and learning in the Republic of Ireland

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Banks

2012

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There is now a well developed literature on the impact of high stakes testing on teaching approaches and student outcomes. However, the student perspective has been neglected in much research. This article draws on a mixed method longitudinal study of secondary students in the Republic of Ireland to explore the impact of two sets of high stakes examinations on student experiences. The analyses are based on surveys completed by 897 lower secondary students and 748 upper secondary students, along with 47 lower secondary and 53 upper secondary group interviews with students. Findings show the presence of impending high stakes exams results in increased workload for students, with many reporting pressure and stress. Throughout their schooling career, students clearly favour active learning approaches. However, for some students, particularly high-aspiring middle-class students, these views change as they approach the terminal high stakes exam, with many showing a strong preference for a more narrowly focussed approach to exam preparation. This article highlights how students shift from a position of critiquing exam-focused teaching methods as inauthentic to accepting such methods as representing 'good teaching'.3

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Section: The Irish Educational Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the actual grades achieved within national examinations are predictive of subsequent outcomes, with higher grades enhancing employment chances and pay levels (Breen, Hannan and O'Leary 1995;Byrne, McCoy and Watson 2009).…”

Section: The Irish Educational Systemmentioning

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High stakes testing and student perspectives on teaching and learning in the Republic of Ireland

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Banks

2012

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“…In fact, by OECD standards, there is quite a marked difference in employment outcomes by educational level in Ireland (OECD, 2006b). Furthermore, the actual grades achieved within national examinations are predictive of subsequent outcomes, with higher grades enhancing employment chances and pay levels (Breen et al, 1995). Access to tertiary education is based on grades achieved in the upper secondary examination, the Leaving Certificate, with students assigned 'points' on the basis of the subject levels taken and grades achieved.…”

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Buying your way into college? Private tuition and the transition to higher education in Ireland

Smyth

2009

Oxford Review of Education

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“…Allmendinger 1989;Müller and Shavit 1998;Müller 2000a, 2000b;Kerckhoff 1995Kerckhoff , 2000Bills 1988;Breen et al 1995;Hannan et al 1999;Gangl 2001). In essence, this literature has argued that more tightly structured education and training systems generate more favourable school-to-work transitions because more specific qualifica-tions tend to allow for more favourable job-person matches, and thus reduce job hopping and turbulence during the early career stages.…”

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The Only Way is Up?: Employment Protection and Job Mobility among Recent Entrants to European Labour Markets

Gangl¹

2003

European Sociological Review

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Editorial Note: Markus Gangl is Senior Research Fellow in the Research AbstractThe paper addresses the effects of employment protection legislation on job mobility and status attainment among young people entering the labour market. Given that strict employment protection legislation (EPL) has often been shown to reduce the dynamics of labour markets in general, resulting low vacancy levels might also reduce youth chances of both job and upward status mobility, and thus flatten observed status-experience profiles. Data from the European Labour Force Survey 2000 Adhoc-module on Transitions from School to Work for 11 European countries supports these assertions: empirically, both job and status mobility rates are negatively related to strict employment protection legislation. The total effect of employment protection on school-to-work transitions is more indeterminate, however, given that EPL also affects the structure of youth labour markets. The empirical analyses show a positive effect of employment protection legislation on occupational attainment of market entrants in both entrants' first jobs and by about five years since leaving the educational system. Empirically, these positive EPL effects on the structure of labour markets dominate negative EPL effects on upward mobility chances -i.e. job shopping typically does not compensate for a good start into working life. The respective EPL effects are shown to affect the low-skill labour market in particular.

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Returns to Education: Taking Account of Employers' Perceptions and Use of Educational Credentials

Cited by 45 publications

References 7 publications

High stakes testing and student perspectives on teaching and learning in the Republic of Ireland

High stakes testing and student perspectives on teaching and learning in the Republic of Ireland

Buying your way into college? Private tuition and the transition to higher education in Ireland

The Only Way is Up?: Employment Protection and Job Mobility among Recent Entrants to European Labour Markets

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