LEAGUE TABLES
RSS Reading Local Group Meeting
4pm Wednesday 20 October (Refreshments from 6pm)
Nike Lecture Theatre
Department of Agriculture
University of Reading
Speakers:
EMMA SCOTT & BEN STYLES (National Foundation for Educational Research)
Out of your league: the use and abuse of school league tables
The method used by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) for
producing school performance tables is presented and problems
highlighted. The use of value-added measures and threshold indicators
are discussed alongside possible difficulties with their interpretation.
Alternative methods that account for pupil and school background are
proposed.
ROBERT IRONS (Healthcare Commission)
Tackling over-dispersion in NHS performance indicators
Star ratings for English NHS trusts are based on indicators transformed
to a scale from 1 to 5. An adjusted transformation developed from
meta-analysis techniques accounts for over-dispersion and reduces the
proportion of trusts in the extreme bands. A random-effects model is
used to calculate standardised scores for each trust.
Directions are available at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/RSSlocal/
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