Teachers' and Administrators' Thoughts on Changes in Reading Instruction within a Merit Pay Program Based on Test Scores

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Merit Pay

Teacher Merit Pay: A Meta-Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 000283122090558
Author(s):  
Lam D. Pham ◽  
Tuan D. Nguyen ◽  
Matthew G. Springer
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Merit Pay ◽  
The United States ◽  
Summary Effect ◽  
Student Test ◽  
Student Test Scores ◽  
Study Context ◽  
Pay Incentives

Empirical research investigating the association between teacher pay incentives and student test scores has grown rapidly over the past decade. To integrate the findings from these studies and help inform the debate over teacher merit pay, this meta-analysis synthesizes effect sizes across 37 primary studies, 26 of which were conducted in the United States. Among the U.S. based studies, the results suggest that the effect of teacher merit pay on student test scores is positive and statistically significant (0.043 standard deviation). This summary effect varies by program design and study context, suggesting that teacher merit pay has the potential to improve student test scores in some contexts but researchers and policymakers should pay close attention to program design and implementation.

Grouping Primary School Pupils for Instruction in Reading on the Basis of Scores from Standardized Reading Tests

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-302
Author(s):  
Donald Hogben
Keyword(s):  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Homogeneous Grouping ◽  
Reading Tests ◽  
Reading Groups ◽  
Gain Scores ◽  
Ability Groups ◽  
Standardized Reading Test ◽  
Reading Test Scores ◽  
Primary School Pupils

Some of the problems and hazards associated with the use of standardized reading test scores in the formation and re-formation of ability groups for reading instruction are discussed in this paper. The notion of “homogeneous grouping” is briefly examined, and some procedures that are commonly employed for the grouping of pupils on the basis of test scores are looked at together with a consideration of test error. Problems associated with the determination of pupil “growth”, and the re-location of pupils in reading groups on the basis of test score change, are examined in some detail. Particular attention is given to two of the major defects of “gain scores” (correlation between pretest and gain scores, and gain score unreliability), the influence of “time of testing” on test scores, and the conclusions that might be drawn about the effectiveness of grouping and instructional procedures.

Biracial Testing: The Question of Clinicians' Influence on Children’s Test Performance

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Roy A. Koenigsknecht
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Preschool Age Children

Six speech and language clinicians, three black and three white, administered the Goodenough Drawing Test (1926) to 144 preschoolers. The four groups, lower socioeconomic black and white and middle socioeconomic black and white, were divided equally by sex. The biracial clinical setting was shown to influence test scores in black preschool-age children.

What Do We Want Them To Be When They Grow Up?

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Lyn Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Profound Hearing Loss ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Learning To Listen

Abstract Learning to listen and speak are well-established preludes for reading, writing, and succeeding in mainstream educational settings. Intangibles beyond the ubiquitous test scores that typically serve as markers for progress in children with hearing loss are embedded in descriptions of the educational and social development of four young women. All were diagnosed with severe-to-profound or profound hearing loss as toddlers, and all were fitted with hearing aids and given listening and spoken language therapy. Compiling stories across the life span provides insights into what we can be doing in the lives of young children with hearing loss.

The Relationship of Compliance with Coping Strategies and Self-Esteem

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisli H. Gudjonsson ◽  
Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Sex Difference ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Summary: The Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS), the COPE Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were administered to 212 men and 212 women. Multiple regression of the test scores showed that low self-esteem and denial coping were the best predictors of compliance in both men and women. Significant sex differences emerged on all three scales, with women having lower self-esteem than men, being more compliant, and using different coping strategies when confronted with a stressful situation. The sex difference in compliance was mediated by differences in self-esteem between men and women.

Social-Scientific Research Competency

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gess ◽  
Christoph Geiger ◽  
Matthias Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Crystallized Intelligence ◽  
Research Competency ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Education Courses

Abstract. Although the development of research competency is an important goal of higher education in social sciences, instruments to measure this outcome often depend on the students’ self-ratings. To provide empirical evidence for the utility of a newly developed instrument for the objective measurement of social-scientific research competency, two validation studies across two independent samples were conducted. Study 1 ( n = 675) provided evidence for unidimensionality, expected differences in test scores between differently advanced groups of students as well as incremental validities over and above self-perceived research self-efficacy. In Study 2 ( n = 82) it was demonstrated that the competency measured indeed is social-scientific and relations to facets of fluid and crystallized intelligence were analyzed. Overall, the results indicate that the test scores reflected a trainable, social-scientific, knowledge-related construct relevant to research performance. These are promising results for the application of the instrument in the evaluation of research education courses in higher education.

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