Evaluating Value-Added Models for Teacher Accountability
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: May 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780833035424
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Teaching skills & techniques; Politics/International Relations; Mathematical models; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; United States; Rating of; Evaluation; General; Political Science / General; Educational indicators; Teachers
First sentence: Value-added modeling (VAM), a collection of complex statistical techniques that use multiple years of students' test score data to estimate the effects of individual schools or teachers, has recently garnered a great deal of attention among both policymakers and researchers.