Methods for identifying effective schools in Memphis City Schools (Year 2)¶

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Description¶

This report documents a set of methods applied to identify effective schools within the Memphis City Schools district, carried out in the second year of a multi-year measurement project. As the publication record states, "This report presents the methods used to identify effective schools in the Memphis City Schools during the second year of the project." The page provides no further detail on the specific measures, models, or indicators involved.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• District administrative data on schools sufficient to support effectiveness identification, as the report's purpose is school-level identification within a district

Constraints¶

• The available record describes only that methods are presented; it does not print the methods themselves, so no specific measure or model can be attributed from this source

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students in Memphis City Schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• School-level effectiveness measurement to support instructional improvement

Related Elements¶

• Value-added model for identifying effective schools in Memphis City school district
• Teacher-level value-added model adaptation for identifying high-performing teachers in Memphis
• New Leaders school and teacher effectiveness identification methods

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Liz Potamites, Duncan Chaplin, Eric Isenberg, Kevin Booker. (2009). Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis—Year 2. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/measuring-school-effectiveness-in-memphis-year-2