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Martin, Andrew J. – Educational Practice and Theory, 2011
There are ongoing debates as to the merits of mastery and performance (or competitive) approaches to school and student learning. Mastery approaches are focused on factors and processes such as effort, skill development, learning, and understanding. Performance approaches are focused more on competition, demonstrating relative ability, social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Best Practices, Mastery Learning, Learning Motivation
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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
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