RMF2010 Abstracts
Session: 69 - Monday 5th July (9.15 - 17.30)
Title: Open session run by Anna Vignoles and ADMIN/LEMMA/CEMMAP colleagues on school league tables
Name: Anna Vignoles
Affiliation: NCRM
Abstract Details
In the UK, School League Tables are used extensively by policymakers and parents as one of the key measures of school effectiveness. However it has been widely recognised that there are problems with some of these measures. The first day of this two day event includes talks from a range of leading international experts and will cover a range of methodological issues around the measurement of value added, school performance and use of school league tables.
Presentation downloads
Presenter: Lorraine Dearden
Information for parents on the effectiveness of English secondary schools for different types of pupil
Presenter: John Fletcher
Methodological Challenges for School Effectiveness Research
Presenter: Harvey Goldstein
The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice
Presenter: Herb Marsh
Assessing Educational Effectiveness
Presenter: Nikos Tzavidis
Using M-Quantile Models to measure the Contextual Value-Added of Schools in London
Presentation details
1
Start time: 09:00
Presentation title: Methodological issues with school league tables and contextualized value added: an overview of the UK system
Author: Lorraine Dearden/ Alfonso Miranda
Affiliation:Institute of Education
2
Start time:
09:50
Presentation
title:Measuring school effectiveness
Author:Herb Marsh John Fletcher, and Benjamin Nagengast
Affiliation:University of Oxford
3
Start time:
11:15
Presentation
title:School efficiency
Author:Flavio Cunha
Affiliation:University of Pennsylvania
4
Start time:
12:00
Presentation
title:The limitations of using school league tables to inform school choice in UK
Author:Harvey Goldstein and George Leckie
Affiliation:University of Bristol
5
Start time:
13:45
Presentation
title:Value added and choice among secondary schools in England. Evidence from population means
Author:Lorraine Dearden, Marcello Sartarelli, and Anna Vignoles
Affiliation:Institute of Education
6
Start time:
14:30
Presentation
title:Small area estimation and value added
Author:James Brown and Nikos Tzavidis
Affiliation:Institute of Education and University of Manchester
7
Start time:
16:00
Presentation
title:Methodological Issues on measuring Value Added: An international Perspective
Author:Jeff Smith
Affiliation:Department of Economics, University of Michigan
