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Mikołaj Herbst, 18.09.2013

Educational Value Added Tools for administrators , schools , teachers , and parents in Poland. Mikołaj Herbst, 18.09.2013. The context. Schools are managed locally, but the central government is politically responsible for providing good quality education to all children

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Mikołaj Herbst, 18.09.2013

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  1. EducationalValueAddedTools for administrators, schools, teachers, and parentsin Poland Mikołaj Herbst, 18.09.2013

  2. Thecontext • Schools are managed locally, but the central government is politically responsible for providing good quality education to all children • Students (parents) are allowed to choose school, but they know little about the quality of schools in range • Local govtsmanage schools, but how they can distinguish high and low performing facilities? • All actors tend to confound school quality and its average outcome at the standardized test

  3. Whatis EVA • Students' exam results depend on many factors • Research show thatfamilybackground and peerpressureare far strongerdeterminants od student performance thanschoolquality • Test scoreis a highly misleading indicator of whether a given school teaches well

  4. Whatis an EVA indicator • The EVAMis a set of statistical techniques that enable measurement of the school's input into learning results. • Itisbased on multipleregressionmodelsthatverify to whatextentstudents’ achievementsattheend of certaineducationstagecan be explained by their performance attheentry to thisstage + individualcharacterstics. • Thismethodrequirestestingatthe start and theend of theconsidered period

  5. Theconcept of EVA 6th grade test score 6th grade test score 6th grade test score

  6. Whatisofferedwithin EVA toolpack • Polish student istested 3 timesover his/hercareer: atthe 6th, 9th, and 12th grade. • Thisallows to calculate EVA for lowersecondaryschools (grade 7-9) and uppersecondaryschools (grade 10-12). • Schoolsreceive a EVA calculatornecessary to estimate a school’s EVA usingindividual data on students • A web-basedtoolproviding a 3-year averages of EVA for individualschools, groups of schools, schoolswithin a municipality, regionalaverages, etc. isavailableonline. • Data isprovidedingraphical form (charts)

  7. Whatis a 3-year indicator?

  8. How to readthe chart (2) EVA (math) Supportiveschool Successfulschool Test score (math) Schoolrequiringassistance School of missedopportunities 90% of schools 50% of schools

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