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Poverty-adjusted value-added school effectiveness rating model

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A model that rates each school's effectiveness by regressing average school test scores on school poverty level and standardizing the residuals. As the article describes it, "the school effectiveness ratings start by finding regression equations relating average school test scores to the poverty level of each school," and schools are rated by standardized residuals averaged over all tests given in a year. Ratings are relative, following roughly a cumulative normal distribution with mean near zero and standard deviation about .75, and incorporate all systemwide tests in grades three through five. The article uses the model both to identify high-performing schools and as a tool for ex post fac

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  • Value-added school effectiveness rating model based on poverty-adjusted regression residuals: A model that rates each school's effectiveness by regressing average school test scores on school poverty level and standardizing the residuals. As the article describes it, "the school effectiveness ratings start by finding regression equations relating average school test scores to the poverty level of each school," and schools are rated by standardized residuals averaged over all tests given in a year. Ratings are relative, following roughly a cumulative normal distribution with mean near zero and standard deviation about .75, and incorporate all systemwide tests in grades three through five. The article uses the model both to identify high-performing schools and as a tool for ex post fac (Bruce Thompson (2006))

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Key Sources

  • Bruce Thompson. (2006). Evaluating Three Programs Using a School Effectiveness Model: Direct Instruction, Target Teach, and Class Size Reduction. Third Education Group Review, Vol. 2, No. 3. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ874476
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title Poverty-adjusted value-added school effectiveness rating model
description A model that rates each school's effectiveness by regressing average school test scores on school poverty level and standardizing the residuals.
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