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Timmermans, A. C.; de Wolf, I. F.; Bosker, R. J.; Doolaard, S. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2015
A recent development in educational accountability is a risk-based approach, in which intensity and frequency of school inspections vary across schools to make educational accountability more efficient and effective by enabling inspectorates to focus on organizations at risk. Characteristics relevant in predicting which schools are "at risk…
Descriptors: Accountability, Inspection, Underachievement, Achievement Gains
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Driessen, Geert; Merry, Michael S. – Educational Review, 2014
The central question in this study is whether the language and math delays of the different socio-economic and ethnic minority groups targeted by Dutch educational disadvantage policy have diminished or not. Data are from the years 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2008. Information from a total of 90,000 pupils in Grades 2 and 8 was selected to represent the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Elementary Schools, Socioeconomic Status
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Guldemond, Henk; Bosker, Roel J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
School effects on students' achievement are relatively small. Another approach, in which students' growth trajectories are the focal point of interest, is able to demonstrate more sizeable school effects. This approach is applied in a study into school compositional effects. The rationale of this study is that in Dutch primary education such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effect Size, Educational Opportunities, Cohort Analysis