Growth modeling
School effectiveness, summer loss and federal accountability
Learn more about the effect of seasonality on estimates of school effectiveness and how ignoring summer loss can impact which schools are identified as low performers.
Topics: Growth modeling, Seasonal learning patterns & summer loss, Student growth & accountability policies
Do students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in middle school predict being off-track to graduate high school?
Topics: Growth modeling, High-growth schools & practices, Social-emotional learning
Validating the SEDA measures of district educational opportunities via a common assessment
SEDA provides a unique measure of educational opportunity across the United States. New research supports SEDA achievement scores, but also reveals some differences in growth estimates.
Topics: Equity, Growth modeling, Measurement & scaling
Reconciling long-term education policy goals with short-term school accountability models
Learn more about the effect of seasonality on estimates of school effectiveness and how ignoring summer loss can impact which schools are identified as low performers.
Topics: Growth modeling, Seasonal learning patterns & summer loss, Student growth & accountability policies
In this study, repeated measures of math achievement and self-efficacy are used to fit a variety of latent curve models that jointly estimate growth in both constructs.
Topics: Student growth & accountability policies, Growth modeling, Social-emotional learning
A posterior predictive model checking method assuming posterior normality for item response theory
This study investigated the violation of local independence assumptions within unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models.
Topics: Growth modeling
Do students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in middle school predict being off-track to graduate high school?
Topics: Growth modeling, Social-emotional learning
