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Hunter, Gerald P.; Williamson, Stephanie; Wilks, Asa; Hanley, Janet M.; Stecher, Brian M. – RAND Corporation, 2020
The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was a multiyear effort to improve student outcomes--particularly high school graduation and college attendance among low-income minority students--by increasing student access to effective teaching. The RAND Corporation worked…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness
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Ferrão, Maria Eugénia; Couto, Alcino Pinto – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
This article focuses on the use of a value-added approach for promoting school improvement. It presents yearly value-added estimates, analyses their stability over time, and discusses the contribution of this methodological approach for promoting school improvement programmes in the Portuguese system of evaluation. The value-added model is applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Achievement Gains, Case Studies