Policy implications of achievement testing using multilevel models: The case of Brazilian elementary schools

Policy implications of achievement testing using multilevel models: The case of Brazilian elementary schools

Large-scale educational assessment has been established as source of descriptive, evaluative and interpretative information that influence educational policies worldwide throughout the last third of the 20th century. In the 1990s the Brazilian Ministry of Education developed the National Basic Educa...

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Main Authors: Igor Gomes Menezes, Victor Riccio Duran, Euclides Jose Mendonça Filho, Stella Maria de Sá Sarmento, Tainã Jesus Veloso, Christine Paget, Kai Ruggeri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
school achievement
Education policies
Hierarchical linear modelling
large-scale educational assessment
Brazilian education system
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01727/full

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