School Effectiveness Research - IPDK 2015
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West, et. al. (2014). What effecEve schools do.
• Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by
improving their students’ underlying cogniEve
capaciEes?
• a sample of more than 1,300 8th graders a@ending 32
public schools in Boston, including tradiEonal public
schools, exam schools that admit only the city’s most
academically talented students, and charter schools.
• In addiEon to the state test scores typically used by
educaEon researchers, we also gathered several
measures of the cogniEve abiliEes psychologists refer
to as fluid cogniEve skills
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