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Ye, Yincheng; Singh, Kusum – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study is to better understand how math teachers' effectiveness as measured by value-added scores and student satisfaction with teaching is influenced by school's working conditions. The data for the study were derived from 2009 to 2010 Teacher Working Condition Survey and Student Perception Survey in Measures of Effective…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Student Satisfaction, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers
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
Kavakli, Nurdan; Arslan, Sezen – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2017
Within the scope of educational testing and assessment, setting standards and creating guidelines as a code of practice provide more prolific and sustainable outcomes. In this sense, internationally accepted and regionally accredited principles are suggested for standardization in language testing and assessment practices. Herein, ILTA guidelines…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Jensen, Mishan; Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2017
This report summaries the Professional Pathways for Teachers (PPfT) appraisal scores and teachers' perceptions of the appraisal system. The PPfT appraisal system was developed and refined during the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 school years. The 2016-2017 school the appraisal system was implemented district-wide. The 2016-2017 appraisal scores will…
Descriptors: School Districts, Career Pathways, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation
Liu, Jing; Loeb, Susanna – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
Both anecdotal and systematic evidence points to the importance of teachers for students' long-run success. Previous research on effective teachers has focused almost exclusively on student test score gains in math and reading. For this study we are able to link middle and high school teachers to the class-attendance of students in their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Attendance Patterns, Secondary School Students
Kaliszewski, Martin; Fieldsend, Astrid; McAleavy, Tony – Education Development Trust, 2017
Data has played an important role in England's recent school improvement journey. The evolution of the approach has not been perfect but the National Pupil Database has become a vital tool for health checking the education system, driving accountability, directing education policymaking, and tracking the educational attainment of key vulnerable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Databases, Accountability
Stevens, Joseph J.; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Schulte, Ann C.; Tindal, Gerald; Yel, Nedim; Anderson, Daniel; Matta, Tyler; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2017
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
Schulte, Ann C.; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Stevens, Joseph J.; Yel, Nedim; Tindal, Gerald; Anderson, Daniel; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2017
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
Day, Christopher; Gu, Qing – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
This article examines how values embedded in the biographies of principals of successful schools influence their responses to systemic policy reforms. Drawing on examples from two secondary principals with similarly strong moral purposes but contrasting value positions, the research found that, despite differences in the cultures, practices, and…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Principals, Learning Experience, Foreign Countries
Thinking Heuristically about Student Growth in Austin Independent School District. Publication 17.33
Hutchins, Shaun D.; DeBaylo, Paige Hartman; Williams, Holly – Online Submission, 2018
This report presents a question-driven exploration of growth and achievement data using SAS EVAAS reports. The purpose of this exploration was to bring additional data, information, and ways of thinking about student growth to ongoing district conversations about the measurement of campus-level student growth.
Descriptors: School Districts, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, High Schools
Shapiro, Arthur – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018
Although in plain sight daily, a highly successful war against the public schools has been hidden in the shadows of public consciousness. Only very recently have several people written articles about this war, with the only book calling it a war being written in 2002. Neither the public nor educators have become aware of the far-reaching extent…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Education, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Wang, Jianjun; Sun, Jinping – Online Submission, 2018
Early childhood education programs play an important role in child family-to-school transition. In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 10, the California Children and Families Act, which levied a 50-cent tax on each pack of cigarettes and other tobacco products to finance programs for children ages 0-5. In less than two decades, First 5…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, School Taxes
Gansle, Kristin A.; Noell, George H.; Grandstaff-Beckers, Gerlinde; Stringer, Angelle; Roberts, Nancy; Burns, Jeanne M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
As states move to teacher evaluation that is intended to capture teacher contributions to students' learning outcomes, some states have adopted "value-added measures" to examine teachers' and teacher preparation programs' effectiveness. In Louisiana, the value-added assessment of teacher preparation programs includes students with…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2015
Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) conducts norming studies every several years to provide the best and most up-to-date information we can about student achievement and growth to better support educational decision-making. It is an important part of our commitment to our partners. The most recent NWEA norms were released in July 2015. Just…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Value Added Models, Academic Standards, Student Improvement
Shavelson, Richard J.; Domingue, Benjamin W.; Mariño, Julián P.; Molina Mantilla, Adriana; Morales Forero, Andrés; Wiley, Edward E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Changes in the nature of higher education are leading towards increased interest in the assessment of student learning. This study considers an attempt to apply value-added models for the purposes of comparing student learning across institutions, taking care to discuss special considerations inherent to the application of these models to higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Value Added Models, Higher Education, College Outcomes Assessment