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Gershenson, Seth – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title-1 schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in consecutive years. Difference-in-difference estimates of the effect of failing AYP in the first year of NCLB on teacher effort in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Attendance, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Choi, Kilchan; Goldschmidt, Pete – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Value-added models and growth-based accountability aim to evaluate school's performance based on student growth in learning. The current focus is on linking the results from value-added models to the ones from growth-based accountability systems including Adequate Yearly Progress decisions mandated by No Child Left Behind. We present a new…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Models, Probability, Longitudinal Studies