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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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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