A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Tying Teacher Evaluation to Student Achievement," by Susan H. Fuhrman in the April 7, 2010 issue of the journal.Reed, Rickeducation week
PD Teacher,S Corcoran 摘要: "Value-added" measures of teacher effectiveness are the centerpiece of a national movement to evaluate, promote, compensate, and dismiss teachers based in part on their students' test results. Federal, state, and local policy-makers have embraced these measures in ...
Value-added measures of teacher quality may be useful tools to help manage the teacher workforce and improve the efficiency of schools. But this requires that they be reliable estimates of teacher effectiveness. Because value-added scores are based on observational data, they may be biased by syst...
Value-added modeling (also known as value-added analysis and value-added assessment) is a method of teacher evaluation that measures the teacher's contribution in a given year by comparing current school year test scores of their students to the scores of those same students in the previous ...
Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside ... S Gershenson - 《Iza Discussion Papers》 被引量: 3发表: 2015年 Selecting Growth Measures for Use in School Evaluation Systems The second ...
12-11-2012 Value-Added Modeling for Teacher Effectiveness [Excerpt] This report addresses issues associated with the evaluation of teacher effectiveness based on student growth in achievement. It focuses specifica... ED Lomax 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 The Stability of Value-Added Measures of Teacher...
As states move to teacher evaluation that is intended to capture teacher contributions to students' learning outcomes, some states have adopted value-added measures to examine teachers' and teacher preparation programs' effectiveness. In Louisiana, the value-added assessment of teacher preparation programs...
However, setting cutoff points for the value-added measure will require substantial thought, because there is no natural cutoff point that represents acceptable performance. Strategic measures of teacher performance: moving from our current haphazard system of teacher evaluation to a more systematic approa...
Models must account for and use the likely positive correlation among multiple measures on the same student. Class groupings of stu- dents change annually, and students are taught by a different teacher each year. The existence of teacher effects and shared but unobserved environmental variables ...
Policymakers have demonstrated an interest in using measures of student achievement to inform high-stakes teacher personnel decisions, but the idea of usin... G Dan,J Walch,B Gabele - 《Statistics & Public Policy》 被引量: 60发表: 2013年 Do professors matter? Using an A/B test to evaluate...