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Xu, Zeyu; Hannaway, Jane; D'Souza, Stephanie – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
This paper describes the school mobility rates for elementary and middle school students in North Carolina and attempts to estimate the effect of school mobility on the performance of different groups of students using student fixed effects models. School mobility is defined as changing schools at times that are non-promotional (e.g., moving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Performance Factors, Cohort Analysis
Ladd, Helen F. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
This quantitative study uses data from North Carolina to examine the extent to which survey based perceptions of working conditions are predictive of policy-relevant outcomes, independent of other school characteristics such as the demographic mix of the school's students. Working conditions emerge as highly predictive of teachers' stated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis