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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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Quality School Evaluation by its Founder
Rybová, Anna ; Chvál, Martin (advisor) ; Urbanová, Eva (referee)
The bachelor thesis Evaluation of school quality by its founder determines activities that are implemented at the level of regional education by founders of primary schools, mainly public schools, when assessing the quality of the schools. In the Czech Republic, the main authority for assessing of the quality conditions, progress and results of education is the Czech School Inspectorate. Its national competence is enshrined in Act No. 561/2004 Coll., on pre-primary, primary, secondary, higher vocational and other education. The evaluation criteria for individual grades are approved by the Minister of Education each year. In 2009-2012, a national project called "The Way to Quality" took place. It helped schools to implement internal evaluation - self-evaluation. Recommended criteria for school evaluation for founders were one of the outputs of the project. A research study of the bachelor thesis showed that founders evaluate activities of the headmaster to determine his financial reward or sanction, for example. The evaluation criteria for the headmaster's activities are not publicly accessible, unlike the schools evaluation which must be published in advance as stated in the Education Act. Publicly accessible documents on school evaluation methodology were given by two founders. They are the city...
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