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Applying the Rasch Growth Model for the Evaluation of Achievement Trajectories
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Patterson, Leigh Cameron – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
Considerable interest lies in the growth in educational achievement that occurs over the course of a child's schooling. This paper demonstrates a simple but effective approach for the comparison of growth rates, drawing on a method first proposed some 80 years ago and applying it to data from the Australian National Assessment Program. The…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Growth Models, Psychometrics, National Competency Tests
The Substantiveness of Socioeconomic School Compositional Effects in Australia: Measurement Error and the Relationship with Academic Composition
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Sciffer, Michael G.; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with academic composition utilising the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) dataset. Previous research has found that school composition predicts a range of schooling outcomes. A…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Foreign Countries, Error of Measurement, Literacy
Is the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Student Achievement Causal? Considering Student and Parent Abilities
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Marks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2020
Most studies on the relationship between students' socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement assume that its effects are sizable and causal. A large variety of theoretical explanations have been proposed. However, the SES-achievement association may reflect, to some extent, the inter-relationships of parents' abilities, SES, children's…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Ability
An Open Systems Model of Successful School Leadership
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Gurr, David; Drysdale, Lawrie; Goode, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: Through description and consideration of 12 models developed as part of the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP), a new model of successful school leadership is developed. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is necessarily descriptive in nature. For the first time, 12 ISSPP models are described together, and…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Feedback (Response)
Critiques of Socio-Economic School Compositional Effects: Are They Valid?
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Sciffer, Michael G.; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
School socio-economic compositional (SEC) effects have been influential in educational research predicting a range of outcomes and influencing public policy. However, some recent studies have challenged the veracity of SEC effects when applying residualised-change and fixed effects models and simulating potential measurement errors in hierarchical…
Descriptors: School Demography, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect