Teachers' Evaluations and Students' Achievement: A "Deviation from the Reference" Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Iacus, Stefano M.; Porro, Giuseppe
Titel	Teachers' Evaluations and Students' Achievement: A "Deviation from the Reference" Analysis
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 19 (2011) 2, S.139-159 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary Education; Grading; Student Evaluation; Outcomes of Education; Grade Inflation; Testing; Italian; Language Tests; Achievement Tests; Academic Achievement; Mathematics Tests; Mathematics Achievement; Science Tests; Science Achievement; Secondary School Students; Teacher Behavior; Reliability; Classification; Theory Practice Relationship; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarbereich; Notengebung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Testdurchführung; Testen; Italienisch; Language test; Sprachtest; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Schulleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Sekundarschüler; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Reliabilität; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Italien
Abstract	Several studies show that teachers make use of grading practices to affect students' effort and achievement. Generally linearity is assumed in the grading equation, while it is everyone's experience that grading practices are frequently non-linear. Representing grading practices as linear can be misleading both from a descriptive and a prescriptive viewpoint. Here we propose to identify grading practices as "deviations from a reference", which is a fully non-parametric criterion, and measure their effects on achievement based on this classification. To show the effectiveness of our approach, we apply the methodology to a data-set on Italian lower secondary school. (Contains 10 notes, 5 tables, and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10