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Wright, Daniel B. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Educational and developmental psychologists often examine how groups change over time. Two analytic procedures -- analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and the gain score model -- each seem well suited for the simplest situation, with just two groups and two time points. They can produce different results, what is known as Lord's paradox.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis, Value Added Models, Scores
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Everson, Kimberlee C. – Review of Educational Research, 2017
Value-added estimates of teacher or school quality are increasingly used for both high- and low-stakes accountability purposes, making understanding of their limitations critical. A review of the recent value-added literature suggests three concerns with the state of the research. First, the issues receiving the most research attention have not…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Accountability, Educational Research, Research Problems
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Scheerens, Jaap – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
In this article, several ways to adjust gross school effects are discussed to set the stage for estimating treatment effects in schooling. Although it is quite hazardous to hypothesize realistic benchmarks for results from meta-analyses, because of the dependency of effect sizes on subject matter area, grade level, and study characteristics, a…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis, Computation, Effective Schools Research
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Rahayu, Sri; Ulfatin, Nurul; Wiyono, Bambang Budi; Imron, Ali; Wajdi, Muh Barid Nizarudin – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
Qualified educational institutions in Indonesia are recognized for their effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Leaders must pioneer, create, and encourage the growth of the quality culture in schools. They should handle the change and create the educational renewal toward the quality such that school achievement can be achieved effectively.…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, School Security, School Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation
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Marks, Gary N. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
The consensus among education researchers is that value-added models are most appropriate for assessing the relative effectiveness of schools, teachers, or programmes for student learning. The preferred value-added model adjusts for prior achievement, but there is a variety of other specifications that may or may not include prior achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Value Added Models, Comparative Analysis
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Wolf, Patrick J.; Lasserre-Cortez, Shannon – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2018
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the number of charter schools in New Orleans has rapidly expanded. During the 2012/13 school year--the period covered by this study--of the 85 public schools in New Orleans, 75 were chartered, enrolling more than 84 percent of all public school students in the city in 92 different school campuses. This study…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Value Added Models
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Neumann, Yoram; Neumann, Edith; Lewis, Shelia – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
This study integrated the Spiral Curriculum approach into the Robust Learning Model as part of a continuous improvement process that was designed to improve educational effectiveness and then assessed the differences between the initial and integrated models as well as the predictability of the first course in the integrated learning model on a…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Integrated Curriculum, Models, Online Courses
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Po, Yang; Yunbo, Liu – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
In the rapid development of Chinese higher vocational education, large gaps have appeared in the scale of development and resource generation among the provinces, among regions in the provinces, and among higher education institutions in the provinces. Balanced regional development and provincial-level coordination have become policy focal points,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocational Education, Governance, Models
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Timmermans, Anneke; van der Werf, Greetje – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
The current study explored the size, stability, and consistency of school effects, using 2 effectiveness indicators: achievements of students at the end of primary school and growth in achievement across 3 years of schooling. The sample consisted of the scores of 25,269 students on 3 subjects, taken in Grades 4 to 6 among 3 cohorts in 319 primary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Elementary School Students
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Straková, Jana; Simonová, Jaroslava; Greger, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
Educational effectiveness research has provided evidence about the importance of teacher beliefs and attitudes for teaching and learning. This study builds on the concept of academic optimism, which combines 3 aspects of a teacher's professional creed: self-efficacy, trust, and academic emphasis. The study explores the functioning of the…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Mathematics
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Ortega, Lorena; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Sammons, Pam – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
This study investigates school effects on primary school students' language and mathematics achievement trajectories in Chile, a context of particular interest given its large between-school variability in educational outcomes. The sample features an accelerated longitudinal design (3 time points, 4 cohorts) together spanning Grades 3 to 8…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Language Arts
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Song, Kyoung-Oh; Choi, Jinyoung – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are an important strategy for innovation in schools, and they are receiving considerable attention from scholars and educators alike. The present study aimed to examine the effect of PLCs on schools' effectiveness and to investigate the social, organizational, and structural factors that can promote these…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Surveys, Structural Equation Models
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Freire, Carla; Fernandes, António – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
The purpose of this study is to analyse how the access to structures of empowerment by teachers in primary and secondary education impacts on their trust of the headmaster of the school management board. Using the theoretical framework of empowerment and trust in the context of companies, one adapted the constructs of these scales to the reality…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Principals, Trust (Psychology)
Zahner, Doris; Steedle, Jeffrey T. – Council for Aid to Education, 2015
Some universities administer standardized tests to estimate school effects on student learning. To that end, many of those institutions choose to gather cross-sectional data (freshmen and seniors in the same academic year) rather than longitudinal data. The effects of this decision on institutional assessment results are generally unknown. The…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Postsecondary Education, Comparative Analysis
Grissom, Jason; Kalogrides, Demetra; Loeb, Susanna – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
School performance pressures apply disproportionately to tested grades and subjects. Using longitudinal administrative data and teacher survey data from a large urban school district, we examine schools' responses to those pressures in assigning teachers to high-stakes and low-stakes classrooms. We find that teachers who produce greater student…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Teacher Surveys
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