TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chudowsky,Naomi
AU  - Koenig,Judith A.
AU  - Braun,Henry I.
ED  - National Research Council (U.S.).
ED  - National Academy of Education.
TI  - Getting value out of value-added: report of a workshop 
SN  - 9780309148146
AV  - LB2838 .G48 2010eb
U1  - 371.1440973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington
PB  - National Academies Press
KW  - Teacher effectiveness
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Educational indicators
KW  - United States
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Rating of
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - STUDY AIDS
KW  - NTE (National Teacher Examinations)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction to value-added modeling -- Uses and consequences of value-added models -- Measurement issues -- Analytic issues -- Considerations for policy makers
N2  - "Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted considerable attention because of their potential applicability for educational accountability, teacher pay-for-performance systems, school and teacher improvement, program evaluation, and research. Value-added methods involve complex statistical models applied to test data of varying quality. Accordingly, there are many technical challenges to ascertaining the degree to which the output of these models provides the desired estimates. Despite a substantial amount of research over the last decade and a half, overcoming these challenges has proven to be very difficult, and many questions remain unanswered--at a time when there is strong interest in implementing value-added models in a variety of settings. The National Research Council and the National Academy of Education held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to help identify areas of emerging consensus and areas of disagreement regarding appropriate uses of value-added methods, in an effort to provide research-based guidance to policy makers who are facing decisions about whether to proceed in this direction."--Publisher's description
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