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Koutsampelas, Christos; Tsakloglou, Panos – Education Economics, 2015
This paper examines the short-run distributional effects of publicly provided education services in Greece using static incidence analysis. Public education is found to be inequality-reducing but the progressivity of the system withers away as we move up to higher educational levels. We employ a framework of both relative and absolute inequality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Education, Articulation (Education)
Weston, Margaret – Public Policy Institute of California, 2010
This document presents the technical appendices accompanying the report, "Funding California Schools: The Revenue Limit System." Included are: (1) Revenue Limit Calculation and Decomposition; (2) Data and Methods; and (3) Base Funding Alternative Simulation Results. (Contains 5 tables and 26 footnotes.) [For the main report,…
Descriptors: Income, Educational Finance, Statistical Data, Research Methodology
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Christ, Theodore J.; Zopluoglu, Cengiz; Long, Jeffery D.; Monaghen, Barbara D. – Exceptional Children, 2012
Curriculum-based measurement of oral reading (CBM-R) is frequently used to set student goals and monitor student progress. This study examined the quality of growth estimates derived from CBM-R progress monitoring data. The authors used a linear mixed effects regression (LMER) model to simulate progress monitoring data for multiple levels of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Oral Reading, Data Collection, Outcomes of Education
Actuarial Foundation, 2012
The purpose of these modules is to provide an introduction to the world of probability and statistics to accelerated mathematics students at the high school level. The materials are centered on the fictional town of Happy Shores, a coastal community which is at risk for hurricanes. Actuaries at an insurance company figure out the risks and…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Probability, Statistics, Learning Modules
Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
Over 2000 teachers in the state of Washington received reduction-in-force (RIF) notices in the past two years. The authors link data on these RIF notices to a unique dataset that includes student, teacher, school, and district variables to determine the factors that predict the likelihood of a teacher receiving a RIF notice. They find a teacher's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Teacher Competencies, Predictor Variables