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Goldhaber, Dan; Startz, Richard – Center for Education Data & Research, 2016
It is common to assume that worker productivity is normally distributed, but this assumption is rarely if ever tested. We estimate the distribution of worker productivity where individual productivity is measured with error, using the productivity of elementary school teachers as an example. Proposals to improve teacher productivity often focus on…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Productivity, Computation
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Paek, Insu; Park, Hyun-Jeong; Cai, Li; Chi, Eunlim – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Typically a longitudinal growth modeling based on item response theory (IRT) requires repeated measures data from a single group with the same test design. If operational or item exposure problems are present, the same test may not be employed to collect data for longitudinal analyses and tests at multiple time points are constructed with unique…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Comparative Analysis, Test Items, Equated Scores
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May, Henry – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Interest in variation in program impacts--How big is it? What might explain it?--has inspired recent work on the analysis of data from multi-site experiments. One critical aspect of this problem involves the use of random or fixed effect estimates to visualize the distribution of impact estimates across a sample of sites. Unfortunately, unless the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Program Effectiveness, Research Problems, Computation
Malone, Amelia S.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
The purpose of this study was to assess the relative contribution of teacher and tutor ratings of inattentive behavior in two different instructional settings in predicting students' performance on fraction concepts and whole-number calculations. Classroom teachers rated each student's attentive behavior in a whole-class setting and tutors rated…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Yousuf, Muhammad Imran; Alam, Muhammad Tayab; Sajjad, Muhammad Latif; Imran, Muhammad – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
Community participation in planning and managing for increased educational opportunity is necessary. To ensure the involvement of local community, the government of Pakistan experimentally launched a scheme in 1994 by establishing School Management Committees (S.M.Cs). The major purpose of the present study was to observe the functions and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Committees, Community Involvement, Foreign Countries