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Addressing omitted prior achievement bias in international assessments: an applied example using PIRLS-NPD matched data
Caro, Daniel H.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Televantou, Ioulia (2018)Omitted prior achievement bias is pervasive in international assessment studies and precludes causal inference. For example, reported negative associations between student-oriented teaching strategies and student performance ...
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Book Chapter
Advances in school effectiveness theory.
Kyriakides, Leonidas (Routledge, 2012)
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An analysis of the Revised Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire using the Rasch measurement model
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Kaloyirou, Chrystalla; Lindsay, Geoff (2006)Background. Bullying is a problem in schools in many countries. There would be a benefit in the availability of a psychometrically sound instrument for its measurement, for use by teachers and researchers. The Olweus ...
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The architecture, dynamics, and development of mental processing: Greek, Chinese, or Universal?
Demetriou, Andreas P.; Kui, Z. X.; Spanoudis, George C.; Christou, Constantinos; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Platsidou, Maria (2005)This study compared Greeks with Chinese, from 8 to 14 years of age, on measures of processing efficiency, working memory, and reasoning. All processes were addressed through three domains of relations: verbal/propositional, ...
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Are teachers consistently effective across subject matters? Revisiting the issue of differential teacher effectiveness
Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Kyriakides, Ermis; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Tsangaridou, Niki (2019)Although consistency in teacher effectiveness has attracted scholarly interest since the 1960s, revived interest in differential teacher effectiveness is recently witnessed, with empirical studies more systematically testing ...
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Assessing individual lessons using a generic teacher observation instrument: how useful is the International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback (ISTOF)?
Muijs, Daniel; Reynolds, David; Sammons, Pamela; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Teddlie, Charles (2018)Teacher effectiveness, which impacts student attainment even when controlling for student characteristics, is of key importance as a factor in educational effectiveness and improvement. Improving the quality of teaching ...
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Assessing Student Problem-Solving Skills
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Gagatsis, Athanasios (Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003)This study examines the construct validity of the Mathematical Patterns Test using data from 848 Cypriot primary school students. Descriptive analyses across 5 age groups suggested a developmental structure of individual ...
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Assessing teacher effectiveness: developing a differentiated model
Campbell, R. J.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Muijs, R. D.; Robinson, W. (RoutledgeFalmer, 2004)
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Book Chapter
Assessing teacher effectiveness: Developing a differentiated model
Campbell, R. J.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Muijs, R. D.; Robinson, W. (2012)
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Assessing the Cross-cultural Applicability of Number Lines in Conducting Arithmetic Operations Using Structural Equation Modelling: A Comparative Study Between Cypriot, Italian and Greek Primary Pupils
Gagatsis, Athanasios; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panaoura, Areti (2004)This study provides construct related evidence of the Arithmetical Operations Test (AOT) using data from 432 year 2 pupils from Cyprus, Greece and Italy. Deliberately, items involving the use of numberline diagrams have ...
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Assessment design and quality of inferences in PISA: limitations and recommendations for improvement
Caro, Daniel; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2019)
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Can Schools Achieve Both Quality and Equity? Investigating the Two Dimensions of Educational Effectiveness
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. (2011)This article investigates the extent to which schools can achieve both equity and quality. Data emerged from two effectiveness studies in teaching mathematics and Greek language, which were conducted to test the validity ...
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Characteristics of effective schools in facing and reducing bullying
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. (2013)This article examines whether variation in school effectiveness in terms of reducing bullying can be attributed to differences in their classroom and school learning environment. All 6th grade students (n = 1504) of 35 ...
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Construct validity of a developmental assessment on probabilities: a rasch measurement model analysis
Gagatsis, Athanasios; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panaoura, Areti (2001)
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The contribution of schooling to the cognitive development of secondary education students in Cyprus: An application of regression discontinuity with multiple cut-off points
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Luyten, Hans (2009)This article reports the results of a study in which the basic regression-discontinuity approach to assess the effect of 1 year of schooling is extended. The data analysis covers the 6 grades of secondary education in ...
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Critical analysis of the current approaches to modelling educational effectiveness: The importance of establishing a dynamic model
Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2006)Researchers in the area of educational effectiveness should attempt to develop a new theoretical framework. A critical analysis of the current models of educational effectiveness research is provided and reveals that a ...
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Developing a test for exploring student performance in a complex domain: Challenges faced, decisions made, and implications drawn
Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Philippou, George N. (2012)This paper illustrates the application of existing guidelines to develop a test grounded in theoretical perspectives and empirical findings in the area of problem solving. By documenting this process, the paper outlines ...
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Developing, testing, and using theoretical models for promoting quality in education
Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kyriakides, Leonidas (2015)This paper argues that the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be used to establish stronger links between educational effectiveness research (EER) and school improvement. It provides research evidence to support ...
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Differential Teacher Effectiveness: Towards a model for research and teacher appraisal
Campbell, R. J.; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Muijs, R. D.; Robinson, W. (2003)The article reviews the research on teacher effectiveness and develops the case for a model of teacher effectiveness in which differential effectiveness is incorporated. Five problems with current concepts of teacher ...
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Do the teacher and school factors of the dynamic model affect high- and Low-Achieving student groups to the same extent? A Cross-Country study
Vanlaar, Gudrun; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Vandecandelaere, Machteld; McMahon, Lean; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan (2016)Background. The dynamic model of educational effectiveness (DMEE) is a comprehensive theoretical framework including factors that are important for school learning, based on consistent findings within educational effectiveness ...