For the past year it has been researching changes to secondary school accountability, and lobbied successfully for a progress measure to replace the maths and English GCSE threshold as the key indicator for school performance.
The indicator for school performance is the grade point average (GPA), and it is calculated by adding the grade points a student earns and then dividing the sum by the total number of subjects taken.
The eBacc performance indicator for schools and the stress on 'core' subjects penalises schools that are strong in the arts and encouraging young people into them.
We also recorded the school "decile rating", the New Zealand Ministry of Education's targeted funding for educational achievement (TFEA) indicator for schools [ 15], which is an area-based socio-economic status (SES) measure which allocates scores ranging from 1 (lowest SES) to 10 (highest SES) to schools.
Indicators of student cognitive ability such as prior content knowledge, IQ, prior attainment in mathematics and grades in previous school years/semesters (as indicators of school engagement and resource of positive self-efficacy beliefs) are paramount to success in school (cf. Schrader and Helmke 2008; for the Austrian situation see Helm et al. 2015b).
Key stage 2 is the Sats measure for pupils at the end of their primary education, and the data is used as one of the main performance indicators for primary schools.
The Selecting for Excellence report published in 2014 has set ten year targets and best practice indicators for medical schools [ 9].
NEA President Lily Eskelsen-Gandia and PTA President Otha Thornton also weighed in with an oped in the Washington Post outlining a multi-indicator dashboard for schools that deemphasizes test scores and is much more focused on resources.
An indicator variable for schools closer to a highway was significant only in models of shortness of breath (p < 0.05) and marginally significant in models of total symptoms (p = 0.09), with higher symptoms at schools closer to the highways.
Again, we apply logistic regression models with a binary indicator for delaying school entry for one year as the outcome variable.
We use a binary indicator for starting school ahead of schedule for one year as the outcome variable and apply logistic regression models.
