Value-added modeling and educational accountability: Are we answering the real questions?

KC Everson - Review of Educational Research, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Which are the most suitable contextual indicators for use in widening participation to HE?

S Gorard, V Boliver, N Siddiqui… - Research Papers in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Universities are increasingly making decisions about undergraduate admissions with
reference to contextual indicators to identify whether an applicant comes from a …

[HTML][HTML] The Idea that digital remote learning can happen anytime, anywhere in forced online teacher education is a myth

A Šorgo, M Ploj Virtič, K Dolenc - Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023 - Springer
An involuntary international experiment in which the entire student population was switched
to digital remote learning due to the measures to stop COVID-19 put the paradigm of" …

English value‐added measures: Examining the limitations of school performance measurement

T Perry - British Educational Research Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Value‐added 'Progress' measures are to be introduced for all English schools in 2016 as
'headline'measures of school performance. This move comes despite research highlighting …

A review and evaluation of secondary school accountability in England: Statistical strengths, weaknesses and challenges for 'Progress 8'raised by COVID‐19

L Prior, J Jerrim, D Thomson, G Leckie - Review of Education, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
School performance measures are published annually in England to hold schools to
account and to support parental school choice. This article reviews and evaluates the …

Reframing the English grammar schools debate

R Morris, T Perry - Educational Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In October 2015 the Department for Education (DfE) permitted a grammar school in
Tonbridge, Kent, to open up an annexe in Sevenoaks, 10 miles away. Amidst claims that the …

[HTML][HTML] How sensitive are the evaluations of a school's effectiveness to the selection of covariates in the applied value-added model?

J Levy, M Brunner, U Keller, A Fischbach - … Assessment, Evaluation and …, 2023 - Springer
There is no final consensus regarding which covariates should be used (in addition to prior
achievement) when estimating value-added (VA) scores to evaluate a school's …

Using linked educational attainment data to reduce bias due to missing outcome data in estimates of the association between the duration of breastfeeding and IQ at …

RP Cornish, K Tilling, A Boyd, A Davies… - International journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: Most epidemiological studies have missing information, leading to reduced
power and potential bias. Estimates of exposure-outcome associations will generally be …

Diagnosing the learning crisis: What can value-added analysis contribute?

M Oketch, C Rolleston, J Rossiter - International Journal of Educational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Advocates of teacher value-added modelling (VAM) argue that this technique can provide
evidence on teacher effectiveness to inform teacher policies and broader education system …

Teachers' perceptions of assessment

J Gardner, D Galanouli - The SAGE handbook of curriculum, pedagogy …, 2016 - torrossa.com
belief systems may act on practice 'in different ways, as filters, frames or guides'(2012: 487).
They also concluded that the enactment of teachers' beliefs is related to their practice and …