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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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Test Score or Student Progress? A Value-Added Evaluation of School Effectiveness in Urban China
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Peng, Pai; Hochweber, Jan; Klieme, Eckhard – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
Outcome-oriented evaluation of school effectiveness is often based on student test scores in certain critical examinations. This study provides another method of evaluation--value-added--which is based on student achievement progress. This paper introduces the method of estimating the value-added score of schools in multi-level models. Based on…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Achievement Gains, Outcomes of Education
Educational Equity and Institutional Safeguards: An Analysis of Compulsory Education for Chinese Rural Migrant Workers' Children
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Fan, Xianzuo; Peng, Pai – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
The educational inequity of rural workers' children is a unique social problem in the transition stage of China. Based on the specific survey in such provinces as Hubei, Henan, Anhui, and other provinces, a conclusion can be drawn that the reasons for the educational inequity of rural worker's children are very complicated, among which the system…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Migrant Workers