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Direct linkDiego Cortes; Dirk Hastedt; Sabine Meinck – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
This paper informs users of data collected in international large-scale assessments (ILSA), by presenting argumentsunderlining the importance of considering two design features employed in these studies. We examine a commonmisconception stating that the uncertainty arising from the assessment design is negligible compared with that arisingfrom the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Research Design, Educational Assessment, Statistical Inference
Jaime León; Fernando Martínez-Abad – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Grade retention is an educational aspect that concerns teachers, families, and experts. It implies an economic cost for families, as well as a personal cost for the student, who is forced to study one more year. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of course repetition on math, science and reading competencies, and…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Scores, Foreign Countries
Liu, Yixing; Levy, Roy; Yel, Nedim; Schulte, Ann C. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
Although there is recognition that there may be differential outcomes for groups of students within schools, examination of outcomes for subgroups presents challenges to researchers and policymakers. It complicates analytic procedures, particularly when the number of students per school in the subgroup is small. We explored five alternatives for…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Daniel Kasper; Katrin Schulz-Heidorf; Knut Schwippert – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
In this article, we extend Liao's test for across-group comparisons of the fixed effects from the generalized linear model to the fixed and random effects of the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). Using as our basis the Wald statistic, we developed an asymptotic test statistic for across-group comparisons of these effects. The test can be…
Descriptors: Models, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Moreno, Samson Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: Four purposes were present in this journal-ready dissertation. The first purpose was to examine the degree to which the percentage of beginning teachers in traditionally configured elementary, middle, and secondary Texas schools differed as a function of two distinction designations (i.e., Academic Achievement in Reading/English Language…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Accountability, Beginning Teachers
MacFarland, Anne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this two-group descriptive efficacy study was to explore the relationship between school configuration and academic and non-academic outcomes of sixth grade elementary students compared to academic and non-academic outcomes of sixth grade middle school students. The independent variable is the school configuration. Group 1 includes…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Outcomes of Education
