Hans Fricke

Hans Fricke
Hans Fricke
Economist,
Amazon.com, Inc.

Hans Fricke was director of quantitative research for the CORE-PACE Research Partnership, where he oversaw management of the CORE research database. Fricke is now an economist at Amazon.com, Inc. He received his PhD in economics and finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

updated 2020

Publications by Hans Fricke
Prior work has shown that levels of self-reported student social-emotional learning (SEL) predict student achievement levels—as well as student achievement gains—but little has been done to understand if within-student changes in student reports of…
Evidence From the First Large-Scale Panel Student Survey
A growing number of school systems use self-report surveys to track students’ social-emotional development as a tool to inform policy and practice. In this article, the first large-scale panel survey of social-emotional learning (SEL) simulates how…
This brief applies value-added models to student surveys in the CORE Districts to explore whether social-emotional learning (SEL) surveys can be used to measure effective classroom-level supports for SEL. The authors find that classrooms differ in…
School value-added models are increasingly used to measure schools’ contributions to student success. At the same time, policymakers and researchers agree that schools should support students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) as well as academic…