Teacher-student interaction quality may reflect pre-existing student characteristics rather than teacher skill unless prior achievement is accounted for¶
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q2 i? Failure to account for previous test scores misattributes variance in student achievement to classroom interactions when it may reflect pre-existing student proficiencies, since students are tracked into higher and lower-achieving groups. → Donald E Grant Jr. & Jerell B. Hill 2020
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Donald E Grant Jr. & Jerell B. Hill 2020¶
Donald E Grant Jr. & Jerell B. Hill. (2020). Activating Culturally Empathic Motivation in Diverse Students. Journal of Education and Learning, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.5539/jel.v9n5p45
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The article argues, drawing on value-added approaches (Allen et al., 2013; Rothstein, 2010), that end-of-year scores are highly dependent on pre-existing proficiency and highly correlated with prior-year scores. This is an analytical argument, not a new empirical test.
"Failure to account for the previous test scores would thus misattribute variance in student achievement that would be more directly be considered for by pre-existing student proficiencies, not to be confused with intelligence."
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Teacher-student interaction quality may reflect pre-existing student characteristics rather than teacher skill unless prior achievement is accounted for |
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Teacher-student interaction quality may reflect pre-existing student characteristics rather than teacher skill unless prior achievement is accounted for |
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