ERIC Number: EJ981403
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 72
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-1926
Measuring "Equity" and "Equitability" in School Effectiveness Research
Kelly, Anthony
British Educational Research Journal, v38 n6 p977-1002 2012
This paper introduces a Gini-type index for measuring "attainment equity" in schools; that is to say, how far a school (or group of schools) is from having a "fair" proportion of its examination success attributable to a fair proportion of its student population. Using data from the National Pupil Database, the Index is applied to more than 20,000 students with matched attainment records at KS2 and KS4 in two "statistical-neighbour" local authorities in England, capturing the extent to which they are meeting a public policy notion of equity. It is then combined with existing contextual value added measures to analyse school and local authority performance in terms of both attainment equity and context. (Contains 20 notes, 4 tables, and 9 figures.)
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, Public Policy, Educational Research, Databases, Equal Education, Achievement Tests, School Districts, Evaluation Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers: England

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