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Gross, Max; Shiferaw, Menbere; Deutsch, Jonah; Gill, Brian – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
This study estimated the promotion power of public high schools in the District of Columbia. Promotion power is a measure of school effectiveness that distinguishes a school's contributions to student outcomes from the contributions of the background characteristics of the students it serves. Promotion power scores are distinct from status…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, School Effectiveness, Student Characteristics
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Forrow, Lauren; Starling, Jennifer; Gill, Brian – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2023
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to identify schools with low-performing student subgroups for Targeted Support and Improvement or Additional Targeted Support and Improvement. Random differences between students' true abilities and their test scores, also called measurement error, reduce the statistical reliability of the performance…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Low Achievement, Error of Measurement, Measurement Techniques
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Chiang, Hanley; Lipscomb, Stephen; Gill, Brian – Education Finance and Policy, 2016
States across the country are developing systems for evaluating school principals on the basis of student achievement growth. A common approach is to hold principals accountable for the value added of their schools--that is, schools' contributions to student achievement growth. In theory, school value added can reflect not only principals'…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation
Chiang, Hanley; Lipscomb, Stephen; Gill, Brian – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2014
States across the country are developing systems for evaluating school principals on the basis of student achievement growth. A common approach is to hold principals accountable for the value added of their schools--that is, schools' contributions to student achievement growth. In theory, school value added can reflect not only principals'…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Principals, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Effectiveness
Gill, Brian; Lockwood, J.R., III; Martorell, Francisco; Setodji, Claude Messan; Booker, Kevin; Vernez, Georges; Birman, Beatrice F.; Garet, Michael S. – US Department of Education, 2009
Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), requires states to establish standards, assessments, and accountability systems to ensure that every child achieves proficiency in reading and mathematics by the year 2014. This report describes exploratory analyses of the effects…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement