Rethinking value-added models in education : critical perspectives on tests and assessment-based accountability /
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Socially engineering the road to utopia -- Value-added models (VAMs) and the human factor -- A VAMoramic view of the nation -- Highly questionable yet often unquestioned assumptions -- Assumptions used as rationales and justifications -- Test-based, statistical, and methodological assumptions -- Nontraditional concerns about traditional methodological notions -- Reliability and validity -- Bias and the random assignment of students into classrooms -- Alternatives, solutions, and conclusions.
Educational accountability
Educational indicators
Educational tests and measurements
Teachers