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Download full textShear, Benjamin R.; Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2019
This paper describes a method for pooling grouped, ordered-categorical data across multiple waves to improve small-sample heteroskedastic ordered probit (HETOP) estimates of latent distributional parameters. We illustrate the method with aggregate proficiency data reporting the number of students in schools or districts scoring in each of a small…
Descriptors: Computation, Scores, Statistical Distributions, Sample Size
Kastberg, David; Murray, Gordon; Ferraro, David; Arieira, Carlos; Roey, Shep; Mamedova, Saida; Liao, Yuqi – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The Program for International Student Assessment Young Adult Follow-up Study (PISA YAFS) is a follow-up study with students who participated in PISA 2012 in the United States. The study is designed to measure how performance on PISA 2012 relates to subsequent measures of outcomes and skills of young adults on an online assessment, Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, Young Adults
Fahle, Erin; Reardon, Sean – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Describing the variation in test scores between and within school districts is critical for: (1) for policy-related and descriptive work that investigates the sorting of students among districts and the differential effectiveness of those districts; and (2) for methodological work planning future experiments or interventions. Intraclass…
Descriptors: School Districts, Scores, Comparative Analysis, School Effectiveness
Direct linkBrown, Alan V.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Using a data set exclusively prepared for and licensed to them by the College Board, the authors examined the growth of the Advanced Placement program in foreign languages and overall trends in regard to the number of candidates who sat for the foreign language exams, their gender, their scores, and their ethnicity over the 36-year period covering…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Advanced Placement Programs, Trend Analysis, Student Participation
Utibe, U. J.; Agwagah, U. N. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study investigated a decade of candidates' performances in NECO-SSCE mathematics in NIGERIA. A total of 9266459 valid results were collated for the study and analyzed for zones in the country. Already validated results of NECO for 2000 to 2009 were used for the study. Three research questions guided the conduct of the study. Results showed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Records, Scores
Bessudnov, Alexey; Makarov, Alexey – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
Gender differences in mathematical performance have received considerable scrutiny in the fields of sociology, economics and psychology. We analyse a large data-set of high school graduates who took a standardised mathematical test in Russia in 2011 (n = 738,456) and find no substantial difference in mean test scores across boys and girls.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Mathematics Achievement, Performance Based Assessment
Karl, Andrew T.; Yang, Yan; Lohr, Sharon L. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Value-added models have been widely used to assess the contributions of individual teachers and schools to students' academic growth based on longitudinal student achievement outcomes. There is concern, however, that ignoring the presence of missing values, which are common in longitudinal studies, can bias teachers' value-added scores.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Peer reviewedWalberg, Herbert J.; And Others – Review of Educational Research, 1984
This paper demonstrates the variety of positive-skew phenomena and discusses their theoretical, research, and practical implications in education. (PN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Research Problems, Scores
Barnes, Shontier Prescott – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The primary purpose of this study was to examine significant differences, if any, in student achievement in the area of math and science of students taught by traditionally certified teachers and alternatively certified teachers. This study examined alternatively certified teachers, as identified from through the Georgia TAPP (Teacher Alternative…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Academic Achievement, Rural Schools, Secondary Education
