Moving forward while looking back: Lessons learned from teacher evaluation litigation concerning Value-Added Models (VAMs)
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DOI: 10.14507/epaa.28.5067
Abstract: The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) appears to offer states and districts discretion to develop teacher evaluation policies, including those that may use Value Added Models (VAMs). While scholars are discussing this flexibility, limited attention… read more here.
Keywords: models vams; teacher evaluation; value added; added models ... See more keywords
“Houston, We Have a Lawsuit”: A Cautionary Tale for the Implementation of Value-Added Models for High-Stakes Employment Decisions
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DOI: 10.3102/0013189x20923046
Abstract: Until recently, legal challenges to the use of value-added models (VAMs) in evaluation and teacher employment decisions in federal court had been unsuccessful. However, in May 2017 a federal court in Texas ruled that plaintiff-teachers… read more here.
Keywords: court; added models; value added; employment ... See more keywords
Accounting for Student Disadvantage in Value-Added Models
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DOI: 10.3102/1076998618803889
Abstract: We study the relative performance of two policy-relevant value-added models—a one-step fixed effect model and a two-step aggregated residuals model—using a simulated data set well grounded in the value-added literature. A key feature of our… read more here.
Keywords: student; step; value; value added ... See more keywords