TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bertoni, Marco
AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
        PY  - 2012/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6629
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6629
        AB  - We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on the grade and the test – with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We find that the effect of external monitoring in a class spills over to other classes in the same school. We argue that the negative effect of external supervision is due to reduced cheating (by students and/or teachers) rather than to distraction from having a stranger in the class.
        KW  - education
KW  - external monitoring
KW  - testing
        ER  -