Random Variation in Student Performance by Class Size: Implications of NCLB in Rural Pennsylvania

dc.creator	Goetz, S. J.
dc.date	2005-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:07:05Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:07:05Z
dc.identifier	1551-0670
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f63dff0df89c4f55b97d7827a60e29e8
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10957
dc.description	Schools that fail to make “adequate yearly progress” under NCLB face sanctions and may lose students to other schools. In smaller schools, random yearly variation in innate student ability and behavior can cause changes in scores that are beyond the influence of teachers. This study examines changes in reading and math scores across Pennsylvania’s schools over time. There is no evidence that rural or smaller schools are systematically disadvantaged by NCLB. In smaller schools, 80% of the increase in scores is estimated to be caused by factors that generally cannot be influenced by school staff. Some schools likely should have received an award in a given year, but failed to earn one because nonpersistent factors reduced their scores to a level that disqualified them. Poverty depresses the gains achieved by schools, but small schools are able to offset the negative effect of poverty on changes in scores over time. Also, increases in poverty in a district reduce the gains in scores that can be achieved.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Maine College of Education & Human Development
dc.relation	http://www.umaine.edu/jrre/20-13.htm
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1551-0670
dc.source	Journal of Research in Rural Education, Vol 20, Iss 13 (2005)
dc.subject	rural schools
dc.subject	rural education
dc.subject	school accountability
dc.subject	No Child Left Behind
dc.subject	adequate yearly progress
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Random Variation in Student Performance by Class Size: Implications of NCLB in Rural Pennsylvania
dc.type	article