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Darling-Aduana, Jennifer; Woodyard, Henry T.; Sass, Tim R.; Barry, Sarah S. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic initially resulted in an unanticipated and near-universal shift from in-person to virtual instruction in spring 2020. During the 2020-21 school year, schools began to re-open and families were faced with decisions regarding the instructional mode for their children. We leverage administrative, survey, and virtual-learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Academic Achievement
Mihaly, Kata; McCaffery, Daniel; Sass, Tim R.; Lockwood, J. R. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2012
In this paper we consider the challenges involved in evaluating teacher preparation programs when controlling for school contextual bias. Including school fixed effects in the achievement models used to estimate preparation program effects controls for school environment by relying on differences among student outcomes within the same schools to…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Educational Environment, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Quality