How large an effect can we expect from school reforms?
By: by Spyros Konstantopoulos, Larry Hedges
Contributors: Hedges, Larry V.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2371; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2371
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Public schools; Educational change; Educational attainment
Description: "Judging the success of school reform requires an interpretative context in which to judge whether effects obtained are large enough to be important or so small as to be a disappointment. The logic of school reform suggests two frameworks with which to judge the importance of effects. One is the size of the existing achievement gaps between important groups in society. The other is the size of gaps in mean achievement among schools (adjusted for student characteristics). NAEP data is used to demonstrate that in national data, gaps which appear large by one standard may appear small by the other. We argue that the most appropriate framework for judging reform effects is the national distribution of school effects"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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