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Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement, according to CEP analysis of the quality of … management practices in schools in a range of developed and developing countries. Renata Lemos notes that the quality of school … management is related to leadership traits of the head teachers - and that management practices have a greater effect on pupil …
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Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...
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also encompasses both undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as lifelong learning. The interactions no longer …
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pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
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Helping students formulate career goals and prepare for successful careers continues to be an important educational objective pursued by many high schools. This report examines the challenges faced by a recent cohort of high school students as they sought to define and achieve their goals, the...
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This paper investigates the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary...
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Some educators are concerned that students with test scores at the bottom or top of the test score distribution will negatively affect the value-added estimates of teachers of those students.
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Examines work-based learning activities in high school, noting that a diverse mix of students—including both high- and low-achievers—participates in some work-based activity. However, females are more likely to do so than males. Also notes that internships arranged through school...
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This article addresses likely error rates for measuring teacher and school performance in the upper elementary grades using value-added models applied to student test score gain data. Using formulas based on ordinary least squares and empirical Bayes estimators, error rates for comparing a...
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