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Stacy, Brian; Reckase, Mark; Wooldridge, Jeffrey; Guarino, Cassandra – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher value-added estimates can depend on the previous achievement…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies, Academic Achievement, Computation
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Borland, Melvin V.; Howsen, Roy M.; Trawick, Michelle W. – Education Economics, 2005
Despite the existence of a considerable and current educational literature concerned with the effect of class size on student achievement, the results of attempts to empirically identify the relationship between the variables class size and student achievement are mixed at best. These attempts have typically been hindered, however, by the…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Environment