Benchmarks for Expected Annual Academic Growth for Students in the Bottom Quartile of the Normative Distribution

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 366-379

  Scammacca, Nancy K ^a   Fall, Anna Mária ^a   Roberts, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

education evaluation; Effect sizes; low performing students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942983768     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2014.952464     Document Type: Article

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