Using Effectiveness Data for School Improvement: Developing and Utilising Metrics

by Anthony Kelly and Christopher Downey

Data metrics in schools are becoming increasingly complex, but despite their best efforts, teachers and academics generally find them something of a 'black-box'. This book lifts the lid on that box, exploring the provenance and problematization of existing techniques and developing new algorithms for measuring the more oblique aspects of in-school performance. Using contextual value-added measures in England as a foundation - they have become the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415562783
• ISBN13: 9780415562782
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages