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McNeal, Ralph B., Jr. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Researchers focusing on parent involvement continue to concentrate their efforts on the relationship between involvement and student performance in isolation of the school context in which involvement occurs. This research outlines an ecology of involvement and how this social context affects parent involvement and student performance. Relying on…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Influences, Context Effect
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Rice, Suzanne M. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2010
Of the school-level factors that have an impact on student learning, one of the most powerful appears to be the effectiveness of the individual teacher. The most effective teachers are, therefore, one of the most important tools schools and systems have at their disposal to lift the achievement of socio-economically disadvantaged students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged
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Mahimuang, Sucheera – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2005
This study aimed to demonstrate an approach to measuring the value-added contribution to academic achievement made by education, and to identify the direct and indirect effects of a school's practices and its contexts. Multilevel modeling using hierarchical linear model (HLM) was employed to adjust the effect of pupil background characteristics…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Grade 4