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From Predictive Models to Instructional Policies
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Rollinson, Joseph; Brunskill, Emma – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
At their core, Intelligent Tutoring Systems consist of a student model and a policy. The student model captures the state of the student and the policy uses the student model to individualize instruction. Policies require different properties from the student model. For example, a mastery threshold policy requires the student model to have a way…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Educational Policy, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit. Discussion Paper No. 1361-09
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Dahl, Gordon; Lochner, Lance – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2009
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use two simulated instrumental variables strategies to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes…
Descriptors: Family Income, Academic Achievement, Evidence, Tax Credits
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects. Working Paper 11
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Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob L. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2007
We use data on statewide end-of-course tests in North Carolina to examine the relationship between teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level. The availability of test scores in multiple subjects for each student permits us to estimate a model with student fixed effects, which helps minimize any bias associated with the…
Descriptors: Credentials, High Schools, Academic Achievement, Teacher Distribution
Education as Experimentation: A Planned Variation Model. Volume IV-A: An Evaluation of Follow Through.
Stebbins, Linda B.; And Others – 1977
This segment of the national evaluation study of the Follow Through Planned Variation Model presents background information and discusses the evaluation of the progress of Cohort III entering-kindergarten children during 4 years of Follow Through participation. Also discussed, for the purpose of examining replicability of effects, is the progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience
National Report College-Bound Seniors, 1979.
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1979
National results for the College Board's Admissions Testing Program for 1979 high school seniors are compiled in this annual report. Scores for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE), and Achievement Tests are reported and analyzed, and data from the Student Descriptive Questionnaire (SDQ) is discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, College Admission, College Bound Students
Refinement of Reading and Mathematics Test Through an Analysis of Reactivity. Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study. Technical Report Series. Technical Report III-6.
Filby, Nikola N.; Dishaw, Marilyn – 1976
Major analyses of the achievement tests used in the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study were conducted to determine test reactivity to instruction. Reading and mathematics tests were administered to second and fifth grade children. Classroom teachers' records were examined to determine the amount of opportunity students had to learn the content…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests