The persistence of school-level value-added

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 616-637

  Briggs, Derek C ^a   Weeks, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

accountability; educational policy; high stakes testing; research methodology; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053944642     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998610396887     Document Type: Article

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