Value-Added Modeling in Education

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The Challenges of Measuring Effective Teaching
While educators, policymakers, and parents may agree on the need for more effective teachers, they often use different criteria to judge whether schools are doing their job. Parents have varied priorities for what they want in teachers and in schools.
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Nov 16, 2016

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Reauthorizing ESEA: Four Recommendations to Improve Teaching Effectiveness
Policies aimed at boosting teaching effectiveness are a key component of a strong ESEA reauthorization. Addressing discrepancies in teacher quality helps teachers improve, retains effective teachers, and makes the teaching profession an attractive option for those contemplating careers.
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Feb 3, 2015
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Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, et al.
Teacher Effectiveness

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Flexibility Is Key in Administration's Call for Teacher Equity Plans
Metrics like teacher experience and licensure reveal little about teachers' impact on student learning. The focus should be on disadvantaged students' access to effective teachers.
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Aug 22, 2014
The RAND Blog
Jennifer L. Steele, John Engberg, et al.
Value-Added Modeling in Education

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A Better Method for Estimating Teacher Performance
Structured observation protocols for assessing how teachers provide lessons to their students offer the opportunity to provide teachers with valuable feedback on how their practices could be improved, writes Terrance Dean Savitsky.
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Feb 19, 2013
The RAND Blog
Terrance Dean Savitsky
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States Tackle Education's Holy Grail: Measuring a Teacher's Effectiveness
An accurate combined measure of teacher effectiveness would be the gold standard to capture and communicate information about the quality of educators. While the challenges to building such a measure are significant, research can help guide the way.
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Jan 11, 2013
The RAND Blog
Kata Mihaly
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How Should We Measure Teacher Effectiveness?
A new RAND Education website provides objective, nonpartisan insights that can help inform the discussion on how to measure teacher effectiveness.
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Oct 3, 2012

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The overwhelming evidence shows that an overly militaristic and repressive terrorism response is counterproductive and only adds fuel to grievances against governments and security forces, which are the leading cause of extremism in many African countries. Moreover, past research shows that a more-holistic and smartly sequenced security assistance approach can deliver real soft and hard power results in both Africa and beyond.

Alexander Noyes

Political Scientist

Source: Hoover Institution

The Biden administration's lack of a competitive economic strategy, not just in Oceania but throughout the Indo-Pacific, is providing China with unique opportunities to leverage its Belt and Road Initiative to deepen trade, investment, and infrastructure development. Chinese economic overtures tend to be successful, given that Pacific Island countries are overwhelmingly small and impoverished.

Derek Grossman

Senior Defense Analyst

Source: Foreign Policy

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Value-Added Modeling in Education

The Challenges of Measuring Effective Teaching

Reauthorizing ESEA: Four Recommendations to Improve Teaching Effectiveness

Flexibility Is Key in Administration's Call for Teacher Equity Plans

A Better Method for Estimating Teacher Performance

States Tackle Education's Holy Grail: Measuring a Teacher's Effectiveness

How Should We Measure Teacher Effectiveness?

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