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Braun, Henry – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
It is a much-lamented fact that research with the potential to inform or influence education policy instead remains policy inert. There are many reasons for this frustrating state of affairs, including a lack of strategic thinking on the part of researchers on how to successfully accomplish outreach--as opposed to communication with peers…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Persuasive Discourse
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Braun, Henry; Qu, Yanxuan – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This paper reports on a study conducted to investigate the consistency of the results between 2 approaches to estimating school effectiveness through value-added modeling. Estimates of school effects from the layered model employing item response theory (IRT) scaled data are compared to estimates derived from a discrete growth model based on the…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Effectiveness, Robustness (Statistics), Computation