Educational effectiveness, assessment and its evaluation












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            * Educational effectiveness, assessment and its evaluation
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            The aim of the research is to identify predictors of learning outcomes (student achievemen

            non-cognitive outcomes) at the class, school, district and national level. Part of the res
            work focuses on developing (constructing and validating) tools for measuring cognitive and
            learning outcomes and attitude scales for pupils and teachers. While school effectiveness 

            mainly quantitative, we also apply qualitative research to learn about the views and attit
            stakeholders (teachers, headteachers, pupils and their parents) on the diverse aspects of 
            process and educational policy measures. On the basis of thorough and rigorous research we

            education policy in the Czech Republic.




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            * Selected outputs:
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            • Straková, J., Simonová, J., & Greger, D. (2018). Improving mathematics results: does tea

              optimism matter? A study of lower secondary schools. School Effectiveness and School Imp
              http://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2018.144644 [ URL "http://doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2018.
            • Martinková, P., Goldhaber, D., Erosheva, E. (2018). Disparities in ratings of internal a

              external applicants: A case for model-based inter-rater reliability. PLOS ONE, 13(10), D
              journal.pone.0203002.
            • Straková, J.; Greger, D. & Soukup, P. (2017). Factors affecting the transition of fifth-

              academic track in the Czech Republic. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2
              DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2017.1290541
            • Drabinová, A., Martinková, P. (2017). Detection of Differential Item Functioning with No

              Regression: A Non-IRT Approach Accounting for Guessing. Journal of Educational Measureme
              498-517.
            • Jones, K., Tymms, P., Kemethofer, D., O’Hara, J., McNamara, G., Huber, S., Myrberg, E., 

              Greger, D. (2017). The unintended consequences of school inspection: the prevalence of i
              effects in Austria, the Czech Republic, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and S
              Oxford Review of Education, 43(6), 805-822.

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