Educational effectiveness and inequalities in Chile: a multilevel accelerated longitudinal study of primary school children’s achievement trajectories

Thesis

Investigating the impact of schools and teachers on student achievement has become an international trend, and Educational Effectiveness Research (EER) has generally found these effects to be modest in size. The field has undergone significant methodological advances and developed new methods for estimating educational effects, favouring the study of students’ growth trajectories using a multilevel longitudinal approach. This method is able to demonstrate more sizeable school and teacher e...

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Authors: Ferrand, LCO

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-dewzzkwv9
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: equity; accelerated longitudinal design; achievement growth; Chile; school effectiveness
• Subjects: Longitudinal studies; Education; Teacher effectiveness; Multilevel models (Statistics)