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Measuring value-added in education
Potužníková, Eva ; Greger, David (advisor) ; Veselý, Arnošt (referee) ; Ježek, Stanislav (referee)
Value-added measurement is a general term for a variety of approaches that assess school effectiveness based on their students' learning progress. In the context of growing interest in monitoring educational achievement, value-added is gaining importance as a fairer measure of school contribution to student learning. The aim of this work is to give an overview of main approaches to value-added measurement and to prove their applicability in the Czech education system. Value-added is measured by statistical models that rely on the method of linear regression but vary in how they model the school effects and which independent variables they use. Value-added scores estimated by nine different models are compared in the empirical part of this work. The study uses data of 3016 students from 141 basic schools assessed in grades 4 and 6 in the Czech Longitudinal Study in Education (CloSE). Value-added estimates differ from average raw test scores and from effectivity estimates obtained from models that account for the students' socio-demographic characteristics but not for their prior test achievement. School effects obtained from different value-added models are highly correlated, but simple regression models classify more schools into groups with above-average or below-average value-added. Simple...
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The comparison of standardized testing and dynamic diagnostics of pupils with specific learning disabilities while using the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure
Baborová, Aneta ; Sotáková, Hana (advisor) ; Vídršperková, Lenka (referee)
The thesis deals with the comparison of standardized testing, and dynamic diagnostics of pupils with specific learning disabilities while using the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure. The thesis aimed to find out the advantages and disadvantages of dynamic diagnostics of pupils with specific learning disabilities while using the above-mentioned diagnostic tool. The implementation of research is based on the theoretical part, which consists of two large areas. These areas are standardized testing/dynamic diagnostics and specific learning/behavioral disabilities. The aspects that most correlate with the empirical part are highlighted. From the first area it is specifically the critique of standardized testing, dynamic diagnostics, the theoretical framework of dynamic diagnostics, the dynamic approach in consulting practice, and the critique of dynamic diagnostics. The second area concerns the types of specific learning disabilities, their social context, and specific behavioral disabilities. Research data were obtained using the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure and the WISC-III intelligence scale. The WISC-III intelligence scale was essential for determination of the research set, for the interpretation of the data based on cognitive profile, and for the negative interference in the testing using the...
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