CLEVELAND, Ohio -- How is value-added calculated? The goal is to find whether a student made a year's worth of academic growth in a school year, but there are many different methods you could use.
In a July 2011 blog post, I pointed out that the D.C. public school system was using test scores from 100 schools still under investigation for cheating to calculate value-added scores that would ...
Educators and researchers on both sides of the value-added debate met in Washington last week to discuss the role of student-performance data in evaluating teachers. Speaking at a forum organized by ...
Ohio will mix old tests and new Common Core test results to evaluate teachers, schools and districts
The new Common Core exams will be mixed with results from the old Ohio Achievement Assessments in calculating value-added for Ohio teachers next year. (Patrick O'Donnell, The Plain Dealer) CLEVELAND, ...
In August 2010, the Los Angeles Times created an uproar by publishing a series headlined "Grading the teachers" in which they looked at the comparative effectiveness of elementary teachers in Los ...
Last week, Manhattan’s appellate court gave the New York City Department of Education the go-ahead to release the names and “value-added score” rankings of thousands of the city’s teachers. Designed ...
What makes an effective teacher? This week our colleagues at StateImpact Ohio try to answer that question as they dig into data from three years of value-added teacher evaluations: Ohio is one of 32 ...
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