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Rew, W. Joshua; Andon, Anabelle; Luschei, Thomas F. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background: We examine the sensitivity of the Heyneman-Loxley Effect to the influence of an error-prone family background measure in 15 education systems from Southern and Eastern Africa. Our aim is to revisit a claim by Abby Riddell from the November 1989 issue of the "Comparative Education Review" concerning the reliability of family…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Background, Academic Achievement
Isenberg, Eric; Hock, Heinrich – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2011
This report presents the value-added models that will be used to measure school and teacher effectiveness in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) in the 2010-2011 school year. It updates the earlier technical report, "Measuring Value Added for IMPACT and TEAM in DC Public Schools." The earlier report described the methods used…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Models