Value-added estimates of teacher or school quality are increasingly used for both high-and
low-stakes accountability purposes, making understanding of their limitations critical. A …

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a
feasibility study on the international Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes …

Value-added measures can be used to allocate funding to schools, to identify those
institutions in need of special attention and to underpin government guidance on targets. In …

In this article, the authors provide a methodological critique of the current standard of value-
added modeling forwarded in educational policy contexts as a means of measuring teacher …

We demonstrate how genetically informed designs can be applied to administrative exam
data to study academic achievement. ACE mixture latent class models have been used with …

The problem of quantifying public goods is one of the most complex problems related to
public choice theory. We argue that the public goods constitute an isomorphic, socio …

Data metrics in schools are becoming increasingly complex, but despite their best efforts,
teachers and academics generally find them something of a 'black-box'. This book lifts the lid …

In education studies value added is by and large defined in terms of a test score distribution
mean. Therefore, all except a particular summary of the test score distribution is ignored …

A minőségi oktatás fogalmi keretei, jelentéstartalmai nagymértékben kitágultak és egyre
összetettebbé váltak az utóbbi időben. Ugyanakkor az bizton állítható, hogy minőségi …

The Polish educational reform in 1999 is often considered successful as the results of the
Polish students, and especially that of the low-performers, on the OECD PISA tests have …