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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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Since 1996 (last 20 years)2
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School Effectiveness2
Cognitive Structures1
Effective Schools Research1
Error of Measurement1
Item Response Theory1
Measurement1
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School Effectiveness and…2
Author
Fox, Jean-Paul1
Van Houtte, Mieke1
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Journal Articles2
Reports - General2
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Climate or Culture? A Plea for Conceptual Clarity in School Effectiveness Research
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Van Houtte, Mieke – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2005
This article questions whether culture and climate can be considered interchangeable concepts in school effectiveness research. Hereto both are compared by describing them thoroughly and reviewing their main advantages and disadvantages. It is argued that the two are different. Preference is given to culture as more suitable and more accurate for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, School Effectiveness, Effective Schools Research
Applications of Multilevel IRT Modeling
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Fox, Jean-Paul – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2004
The recent development of multilevel IRT models (Fox & Glas, 2001, 2003) has been shown to be very useful for analyzing relationships between observed variables on different levels containing measurement error. Model parameter estimates and their standard deviations are concurrently estimated taking account of measurement error in observed…
Descriptors: Measurement, Error of Measurement, School Effectiveness, Item Response Theory