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Cullinan, Dan; Barnett, Elisabeth; Kopko, Elizabeth; Lopez, Andrea; Morton, Tiffany – MDRC, 2019
Colleges throughout the United States are evaluating the effectiveness of the strategies used to decide whether to place students into college-level or developmental education courses. Developmental, or remedial, courses are designed to develop the reading, writing, or math skills of students deemed underprepared for college-level courses, a…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Placement, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs
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Losinski, Mickey; Maag, John W.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Ryan, Joseph B. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2015
Structural behavioral assessment (SBA) involves a series of heuristic approaches similar to those used with functional behavioral assessment (FBA). It involves assessing contextual variables that precede the occurrence of a behavior. These variables have also been termed antecedents, setting events, or establishing operations. Once these variables…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Problems, Context Effect, Evaluation Methods
Raj Chetty; John N. Friedman; Jonah E. Rockoff – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has sparked debate largely because of disagreement about (1) whether value-added (VA) provides unbiased estimates of teachers' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Scores, Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education