The recently introduced National Pupil Database in England allows the tracking of every child through the compulsory phases of the state education system. The data from Key Stage 2 for three Local Education Authorities are studied, following cohorts of pupils through their schooling. The...

Value-added analysis is a common tool in analysing school performances. In this paper, we analyse the SIMCE panel data which provides individual scores of about 200,000 students in Chile, and whose aim is to rank schools according to their educational achievement. Based on the data collection...

Slack-variable models are compared against Scheffe's polynomial model for mixture experiments. The notion of model equivalence and the use of various diagnostic measures provide effective tools in making such comparisons, particularly when the experimental region is highly constrained. It is...

There is consensus in the literature about the need to control for socioeconomic status and other contextual variables at student and school level in the estimation of value added models, for which methodologies rely on hierarchical linear models. However, this approach is problematic because...

Este documento de trabajo utiliza el enfoque de fronteras parciales para analizar la eficiencia de los centros educativos. Se calcula el indicador de máximo output potencial en referencia a la magnitud en que podrían mejorar los resultados de la escuela, ya sea manteniendo las condiciones...