Universities are increasingly making decisions about undergraduate admissions with reference to contextual indicators to identify whether an applicant comes from a …
Composite indicators aggregate a set of variables by using weights which are understood to reflect the variables' importance in the index. We propose to measure the importance of a …
How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us, like taxes, into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other …
Background and Aim Many multilevel logistic regression analyses of “neighbourhood and health” focus on interpreting measures of associations (eg, odds ratio, OR). In contrast …
Objective To explore whether responses to questions in surveys of patients that purport to assess the performance of general practices or doctors reflect differences between …
S Gorard - British Educational Research Journal, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the model of school effectiveness (SE) currently dominant in research, policy and practice in England (although the concerns it raises are international). It shows …
Governments, local authorities, school leaders, and teachers all over the world want to improve the educational attainment and participation of all students, and to minimise any …
G Leckie, H Goldstein - British Educational Research Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the UK, USA and elsewhere, school accountability systems increasingly compare schools using value‐added measures of school performance derived from pupil scores in high …