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Audrey B. Wood – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on some of the professional and practical challenges which emerged during the process of carrying out a small-scale action research project into different approaches to teaching English Literature in a Year-9 secondary classroom, completed in part-fulfilment of the requirements for a higher degree.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 8, English Literature
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May, Henry – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2006
In this article, a new method is presented and implemented for deriving a scale of socioeconomic status (SES) from international survey data using a multilevel Bayesian item response theory (IRT) model. The proposed model incorporates both international anchor items and nation-specific items and is able to (a) produce student family SES scores…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Socioeconomic Status, Scaling