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Patterson, Leigh Cameron – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
Considerable interest lies in the growth in educational achievement that occurs over the course of a child's schooling. This paper demonstrates a simple but effective approach for the comparison of growth rates, drawing on a method first proposed some 80 years ago and applying it to data from the Australian National Assessment Program. The…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Growth Models, Psychometrics, National Competency Tests
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Marks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2020
Most studies on the relationship between students' socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement assume that its effects are sizable and causal. A large variety of theoretical explanations have been proposed. However, the SES-achievement association may reflect, to some extent, the inter-relationships of parents' abilities, SES, children's…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Ability
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Gurr, David; Drysdale, Lawrie; Goode, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: Through description and consideration of 12 models developed as part of the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP), a new model of successful school leadership is developed. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is necessarily descriptive in nature. For the first time, 12 ISSPP models are described together, and…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Feedback (Response)