The use of multilevel modeling to assess teacher effectiveness within a school using TAKS scores

Hierarchical Linear Models were used to analyze data from one Texas school and identify effective and ineffective mathematics teachers using their students’ scores on two consecutive years of the state test (TAKS) over a three-year period. A model was developed which attempted to control for studen...

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Main Author: Wunderlich, Ruth Levenstein
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1713