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Mfume, Tiffany Beth – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018
Despite the Great Recession and looming "student loan debt crisis", college education remains the most proven, invaluable lifetime investment and serves as the most reliable path to upward mobility and socioeconomic class reassignment. Mfume suggests that "the value added" of even one year of college can be transformative. As…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education, Graduation Rate
Theobald, Roddy J.; Goldhaber, Dan D.; Gratz, Trevor M.; Holden, Kristian L. – Grantee Submission, 2021
We used longitudinal data on high school students in Washington State to assess the relationships between English Language Arts (ELA) teacher qualifications and the high school and postsecondary outcomes of their students, and whether these relationships differed for students with and without disabilities. We found that students assigned to…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Teachers, Students with Disabilities, High School Students
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Lee, Se Woong – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
This study examines the relationship between two dominant measures of teacher quality, teacher qualification and teacher effectiveness (measured by value-added modeling), in terms of their influence on students' short-term academic growth and long-term educational success (measured by bachelor's degree attainment). As students are exposed to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Academic Achievement, Value Added Models
Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman Brent R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state of Texas, we identify relative college value-added…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Higher Education, State Universities, Decision Making
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Larbi-Siaw, Otu – Africa Education Review, 2018
This article reports on a study that was conducted to evaluate value addition in the learning attainments of students in higher education. The subjects in the study were telecommunication engineering students who pursued their programme of study between 2011 and 2013 at the Ghana Technology University College. Using descriptive statistics and…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Value Added Models, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
Jackson, C. Kirabo; Porter, Shanette C.; Easton, John Q.; Blanchard, Alyssa; Kiguel, Sebastián – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socio-emotional development (SED) by enhancing social well-being and promoting hard work. Conditional on schools' test score impacts, schools that improve SED, reduce school-based arrests, and increase high-school completion, college-going, and college persistence.…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Crime, Educational Attainment