Problems in Education

ThinkOfTheChildren

Post will be returning in Main, after a rewrite by the company's writing staff. Citations Galore.

Has anyone published data on the effectiveness of Bayesian prediction models as an educational intervention? It seems like that would be very helpful in terms of being able to convince school districts to give them a shot.

http://www.sas.com/govedu/edu/k12/evaas/papers.html

Quite a few things there. SAS's EVAAS is generally considered the gold standard of bayesian prediction models as educational interventions; unfortunately as SAS is based in North Carolina it has yet to spread outside that particular state. Some states have similar systems being produced by similar companies.

Particularly, if I were you I would read: http://www.sas.com/success/wf_rolesville.html

3gwern13y

Most of the discussions I've happened to see focus on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_modeling , because being able to judge teachers is directly useful to school districts and lots of outsiders are interested in the topic. Since the usual approach uses multilevel model (you need to adjust for school-level effects, district-level effects, etc before you can extract a usable teacher-level effect), it's almost Bayesian by default, and if you google 'bayesian value-added modeling' you'll find a ton of material.

2TimS13y

My experience is that school districts have a strong not-invented-here bias. For example, special education laws require research based interventions, a requirement that is generally ignored.

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