Assessing school effects without controlling for prior achievement?

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-165

  Luyten, Hans ^a   Tymms, Peter ^b   Jones, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multilevel analysis; PIPS; Primary education; Regression discontinuity; School effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749088131     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243450902879779     Document Type: Article

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