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Davies, Todd Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the prevailing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate as an effective platform to improve schools. The data compiled for use in this study represented 426 high schools in Pennsylvania and were retrieved from publicly accessible, state-sponsored sources. The statistical methodologies from the Pennsylvania Value-Added…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Wittebols, James H. – 1986
Recommendations designed to assist states in the creation of meaningful definitions of types of schools and students for use in the Council of Chief State School Officers' Education Data Improvement Project are presented. The Project's goals are to promote and facilitate the reform and refinement of the National Center for Education Statistics'…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Databases