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Spillane, James P.; Shirrell, Matthew; Adhikari, Samrachana – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
Teachers' on-the-job interactions with colleagues impact their effectiveness, yet little research has explored whether and how teacher performance predicts these interactions. Drawing on 5 years of social network data from one school district, we explore the relationship between teacher performance and teachers' instructional advice and…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness, Social Networks, School Districts
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Bonell, Christopher; Shackleton, Nichola; Fletcher, Adam; Jamal, Farah; Allen, Elizabeth; Mathiot, Anne; Markham, Wolfgang; Aveyard, Paul; Viner, Russell – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objectives: It has been suggested that students are healthier in schools where more students are committed to school. Previous research has examined this only using a proxy measure of value-added education (a measure of whether school-level attendance and attainment are higher than predicted by students' social profile), finding associations with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Smoking, Drinking
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Seeley, Eugene L.; Chapman, Jared R.; Glenn, Lowell M.; Adams, Lynn L.; Wright, Norman S. – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2018
This case study examines faculty attitudes related to using electronic texts in business classes. The following areas of faculty opinion were evaluated: comfort level when using the technology, content quality, technical ease of use, and value added to the classroom teaching experience. The research consisted of a focus group with seven faculty…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Business Administration Education
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Perry, Thomas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
Value-added (VA) measures are currently the predominant approach used to compare the effectiveness of schools. Recent educational effectiveness research, however, has developed alternative approaches including the regression discontinuity (RD) design, which also allows estimation of absolute school effects. Initial research suggests RD is a viable…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Value Added Models, Regression (Statistics)
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Morris, Tim T.; Davies, Neil M.; Dorling, Danny; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Smith, George Davey – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Value-added measures of educational progress have been used by education researchers and policy-makers to assess the performance of teachers and schools, contributing to performance-related pay and position in school league tables. They are designed to control for all underlying differences between pupils and should therefore provide unbiased…
Descriptors: Validity, Value Added Models, Genetics, Foreign Countries
Zahner, Doris; Steedle, Jeffrey T. – Council for Aid to Education, 2015
Some universities administer standardized tests to estimate school effects on student learning. To that end, many of those institutions choose to gather cross-sectional data (freshmen and seniors in the same academic year) rather than longitudinal data. The effects of this decision on institutional assessment results are generally unknown. The…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Postsecondary Education, Comparative Analysis