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Zumeta, Rebecca O.; Compton, Donald L.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Exceptional Children, 2012
This study assessed the effects of sampling breadth on technical features of word identification fluency (WIF), a tool for screening and monitoring the reading development of first graders. From a potential pool of 704 first-grade students, the authors measured both a representative sample (n = 284) and 2 other subgroups: those with low reading…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Achievement, Word Lists, Academic Achievement
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McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Sass, Tim R.; Lockwood, J. R.; Mihaly, Kata – Education Finance and Policy, 2009
The utility of value-added estimates of teachers' effects on student test scores depends on whether they can distinguish between high- and low-productivity teachers and predict future teacher performance. This article studies the year-to-year variability in value-added measures for elementary and middle school mathematics teachers from five large…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Sampling, Middle School Teachers