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Leckie, George; Prior, Lucy – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2022
School accountability systems increasingly hold schools to account for their performances using value-added models purporting to measure the effects of schools on student learning. The most common approach is to fit a linear regression of student current achievement on student prior achievement, where the school effects are the school means of the…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Accountability, Secondary Schools, Educational Practices
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Feinberg, Richard A.; Jurich, Daniel P. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
Recent research has proposed a criterion to evaluate the reportability of subscores. This criterion is a value-added ratio ("VAR"), where values greater than 1 suggest that the true subscore is better approximated by the observed subscore than by the total score. This research extends the existing literature by quantifying statistical…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Scores, Research Reports, Value Added Models
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Leckie, George; Goldstein, Harvey – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Since 1992, the UK Government has published so-called "school league tables" summarising the average General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) "attainment" and "progress" made by pupils in each state-funded secondary school in England. While the headline measure of school attainment has remained the percentage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Rating, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
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Giasiranis, Stefanos; Sofos, Loizos – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The purpose of this study was the investigation of the added value of technology of augmented reality (AR) in education and, particularly, whether this contributes to both student performance improvement, as well as the appearance of the psychological condition of Flow, which according to research, has had a positive effect on their performance…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychological Patterns, Value Added Models, Augmentative and Alternative Communication