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most citedThe implications of Labour's plan to scrap Key Stage 2 tests for Progress 8 and secondary school accountability in England

4 citations · 10 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

stat.AP2022★ 3 cited

Sociodemographic inequalities in student achievement: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) with application to students in London, England

Lucy Prior, Clare Evans, Juan Merlo +1

Sociodemographic inequalities in student achievement are a persistent concern for education systems and are increasingly recognized to be intersectional. Intersectionality consider…

stat.AP2021

A Comparison of Value-Added Models for School Accountability

George Leckie, Lucy Prior

School accountability systems increasingly hold schools to account for their performances using value-added models purporting to measure the effects of schools on student learning.…

stat.AP2021★ 1 cited

A review and evaluation of secondary school accountability in England: Statistical strengths, weaknesses, and challenges for 'Progress 8'

Lucy Prior, John Jerrim, Dave Thomson +1

School performance measures are published annually in England to hold schools to account and to support parental school choice. This article reviews and evaluates the Progress 8 se…

stat.AP2020

Providing educational accountability for Local Authorities based upon sampling pupils within schools: moving away from simplistic school league tables

Harvey Goldstein, George Leckie, Lucy Prior

This paper proposes an alternative educational accountability system for England that moves away from simplistic comparisons, or league tables, among schools towards a more nuanced…

stat.AP2020★ 2 cited

School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: A more rounded approach to using student data to inform school accountability

Lucy Prior, Harvey Goldstein, George Leckie

Education systems around the world increasingly rely on school value-added models to hold schools to account. These models typically focus on a limited number of academic outcomes,…

stat.AP2019★ 4 cited

The implications of Labour's plan to scrap Key Stage 2 tests for Progress 8 and secondary school accountability in England

George Leckie, Lucy Prior, Harvey Goldstein

In England, Progress 8 is the Conservative government's headline secondary school performance and accountability measure. Progress 8 attempts to measure the average academic progre…