How to Use Value-Added Analysis to Improve Student Learning: A Field Guide for School and District Leaders
"This helpful book comes at an important time for teachers and school administrators. While value-added analysis has been around for more than two decades, the widespread use of value-added assessment is just now exploding into common use."(Douglas B. Reeves, Ph.D, Founder, The Leadership and Learning Center)“This book offers a practical, engaging introduction to value-added assessment. It should be read by educators at all levels. The authors demystify a complex topic and give educators the tools they need to use value-added data to help students learn.”(Bob Taft, Former Governor of Ohio)“A welcome, plain-spoken, and eminently practical guide to making the most of value-added analysis to strengthen data-driven decision making and boost achievement in our schools.”(Chester E. Finn, Jr., President, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation)"As districts across the country rapidly ramp up for using value-added performance measures in teacher evaluations, this book will provide invaluable information on making that data positive and productive, rather than frightening and antagonizing.”(Daniel F. McCaffrey, Ph.D., Senior Statistician, The RAND Corporation)"Value-added assessment is an extraordinarily important breakthrough in education research that provides a direct empirical measure of instructional effectiveness at the classroom level. This book could not be more timely given the sea change now underway in how teachers and administrators are being evaluated and compensated."(Theodore Hershberg, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy and History, University of Pennsylvania)