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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Choi, Kilchan; Goldschmidt, Pete – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Value-added models and growth-based accountability aim to evaluate school's performance based on student growth in learning. The current focus is on linking the results from value-added models to the ones from growth-based accountability systems including Adequate Yearly Progress decisions mandated by No Child Left Behind. We present a new…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Models, Probability, Longitudinal Studies
Kim, Junyeop; Choi, Kilchan – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
Effective schools should be superior in both enhancing students' achievement levels and reducing the gap between high- and low-achieving students in the school. However, the focus has been placed mainly on schools' achievement levels in most school effect studies. In this article, we focused our attention upon the school-specific achievement…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Achievement Gap, School Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
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Choi, Kilchan – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2001
Uses longitudinal study of differences between boys and girls in levels of mathematics and science achievement across grades 7 through 10 to extend hierarchical modeling to allow for regression among latent variables using a fully Bayesian approach. (Contains 30 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Markov Processes