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Muñoz-Chereau, B.; Thomas, S. M. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
This article reports an original investigation into school performance measures and the multilevel nature of pupil achievement data in the Chilean school system using a sample of 177,461 students, nested within 7146 classrooms, 2283 secondary schools and 313 municipalities. The data-set comprised Year 10 students' 2006 SIMCE test's results in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Secondary Education, Value Added Models
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Ramirez, Maria-Jose – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The low performance of Chile in the TIMSS 1998/99 international study of mathematics and science achievement was a great disappointment for that country. To investigate the likely causes for low performance in mathematics, this study (1) compared Chile to three countries and one large school system that had similar economic conditions but superior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Educational Resources, Science Achievement