Download or read book Stability and Correlates of Teacher Effects in Grade Two Reading Achievement written by David Joel Heistad and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Effectiveness on High and Low Stakes Tests written by Sean P. Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors use data from the Houston Independent School District to estimate teacher effects on two different academic tests of the same subject areas, administered in the same school year to the same students at approximately the same time of year. The first is the statewide "high-stakes" test administered as part of the Texas accountability system, while the second is a nationally-normed "low-stakes" test, intended as both an audit test and as a grade promotion tool. The authors focus on achievement in reading and math in the 4th and 5th grade. Given these two effectiveness measures, the authors address the following questions: (1) Do these estimates of teacher effectiveness suggest a similar level of variation in quality across teachers?; (2) How strongly are these two measures correlated? Is it the case that teachers who appear effective on a "high-stakes" state test are similarly effective on a "low-stakes" test of the same subject?; (3) Is one measure of teacher effectiveness more stable from year to year than the other?; (4) Are there differences in decay rates in teacher effects on high- and low-stakes tests?; and (5) To what extent does the high- and low-stakes nature of the test contribute to these differences? For this paper the authors drew from a longitudinal dataset of all students tested in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) between 1998 and 2006, approximately 165,000 per year. The authors' results indicate that teacher effects on the "high"-stakes test vary substantially more than those in the same subject on the low-stakes test. For the Texas state assessments (TAAS/TAKS), they find a standard deviation in teacher quality of 0.23 in reading and 0.28 in math. In contrast, the standard deviation is nearly half this size on the Stanford: 0.13 and 0.15, respectively. Teacher effects on different tests of the same subject in the same year are only modestly correlated, at 0.61 in math and 0.52 in reading. Figure 2 expresses this correlation another way, showing the proportion of teachers in each quintile of effectiveness on one test that ranked in quintiles 1-5 on the second test. As an illustration, they find only 48 percent of teachers in the top quintile of the TAKS math test were also in the top quintile of the Stanford test. A non-trivial share (13%) ranked among the "lowest" two quintiles of the Stanford. They find very little difference across the two tests in inter-temporal stability. Perhaps more importantly, they find that teacher effects on the high-stakes TAKS test decay at a much faster rate than those on the low-stakes Stanford test. Using the method proposed by Jacob, Lefgren, and Sims (forthcoming), they estimated the persistence of teacher-induced gains on achievement in later grades and found that 34% of a teacher's effect on grade 4 mathematics carried through to grade 5, as measured by the Stanford test, while only 16% of her effect on achievement persisted as measured on the high-stakes TAKS test. The corresponding numbers in reading were 31% and 20%. Finally, they find important differences in the impact of teacher observables on student performance across the two tests. The returns to teacher experience are compressed on the high-stakes test, such that the majority of the returns occur in the first 2 to 3 years. In contrast, they find positive returns to experience on the low-stakes reading test throughout the first 15 years of teachers' careers. (Contains 2 figures.).
Download or read book Effective Teachers Student Achievement written by James Stronge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher. This book presents the research findings which demonstrate the connection between teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Author James Stronge describes and explains the value-added teacher-assessment research that has emerged in the past decade and demystifies the power and practices of effective teachers.
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Download or read book Classroom Control and Reading Achievement in Grade Two and Grade Five written by Gwendolyn May Brooker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empirical Bayes Estimators as an Indicator of Educational Effectiveness written by J. Paul Gustafson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whither Opportunity written by Greg J. Duncan and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of rising inequality affect the educational attainment and life chances of low-income children? In Whither Opportunity? a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education. This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is undermining one of the most important goals of public education—the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success. The most ambitious study of educational inequality to date, Whither Opportunity? analyzes how social and economic conditions surrounding schools affect school performance and children’s educational achievement. The book shows that from earliest childhood, parental investments in children’s learning affect reading, math, and other attainments later in life. Contributor Meredith Phillip finds that between birth and age six, wealthier children will have spent as many as 1,300 more hours than poor children on child enrichment activities such as music lessons, travel, and summer camp. Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems – attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students. As a result of such disparities, contributor Sean Reardon finds that the gap between rich and poor children’s math and reading achievement scores is now much larger than it was fifty years ago. And such income-based gaps persist across the school years, as Martha Bailey and Sue Dynarski document in their chapter on the growing income-based gap in college completion. Whither Opportunity? also reveals the profound impact of environmental factors on children’s educational progress and schools’ functioning. Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina Gibson-Davis show that local job losses such as those caused by plant closings can lower the test scores of students with low socioeconomic status, even students whose parents have not lost their jobs. They find that community-wide stress is most likely the culprit. Analyzing the math achievement of elementary school children, Stephen Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art find that students learn less if they attend schools with high student turnover during the school year – a common occurrence in poor schools. And David Kirk and Robert Sampson show that teacher commitment, parental involvement, and student achievement in schools in high-crime neighborhoods all tend to be low. For generations of Americans, public education provided the springboard to upward mobility. This pioneering volume casts a stark light on the ways rising inequality may now be compromising schools’ functioning, and with it the promise of equal opportunity in America.
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Download or read book Mandated Evaluation of Educators a Conference on California s Stull Act written by Nathaniel Lees Gage and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference organized by the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching, School of Education, Stanford University, and held at Stanford University, Oct. 12-14, 1972.
Download or read book The Effect of Selected Instructional Strategies on Pupils Reading Achievement in Grades Two Three Four and Five written by Beth Sholars Wise and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Active Mathematics Teaching written by Thomas L. Good and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Yearbook of the National Reading Conference written by National Reading Conference (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
