| Reference : How sensitive are the evaluations of a school's effectiveness to the selection of cov... |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Education & instruction | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51126 | |||
| How sensitive are the evaluations of a school's effectiveness to the selection of covariates in the applied value‑added model? | |
| English | |
Levy, Jessica  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Education and Social Work (DESW) >] | |
| Brunner, Martin [University of Potsdam > Department of Education] | |
| Keller, Ulrich [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > LUCET >] | |
| Fischbach, Antoine [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Education and Social Work (DESW) >] | |
| 7-May-2022 | |
| Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability | |
| Springer | |
| Yes (verified by ORBilu) | |
| International | |
| 1874-8597 | |
| 1874-8600 | |
| Norwell | |
| Germany | |
| [en] There is no final consensus regarding which covariates should be used (in addition
to prior achievement) when estimating value-added (VA) scores to evaluate a school’s effectiveness. Therefore, we examined the sensitivity of evaluations of schools’ effectiveness in math and language achievement to covariate selection in the applied VA model. Four covariate sets were systematically combined, including prior achievement from the same or different domain, sociodemographic and sociocultural background characteristics, and domain-specific achievement motivation. School VA scores were estimated using longitudinal data from the Luxembourg School Monitoring Programme with some 3600 students attending 153 primary schools in Grades 1 and 3. VA scores varied considerably, despite high correlations between VA scores based on the different sets of covariates (.66 < r < 1.00). The explained variance and consistency of school VA scores substantially improved when including prior math and prior language achievement in VA models for math and prior language achievement with sociodemographic and sociocultural background characteristics in VA models for language. These findings suggest that prior achievement in the same subject, the most commonly used covariate to date, may be insufficient to control for between-school differences in student intake when estimating school VA scores. We thus recommend using VA models with caution and applying VA scores for informative purposes rather than as a mean to base accountability decisions upon. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51126 | |
| 10.1007/s11092-022-09386-y |
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