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Value-Added Modeling in Education

Value-Added Modeling in Education

Student performance reflects many factors beyond their teacher's effectiveness, yet teacher evaluations often reflect how well their students do on standardized tests. RAND researchers are nationally recognized for their work using value-added modeling to distinguish a teacher's impact from factors such as individual ability, family environment, past schooling, and peer influence.

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Feb 17, 2021

The Consistency of Composite Ratings of Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence From New Mexico

We estimate the consistency of composite ratings of teacher quality from New Mexico's teacher evaluation system from 2015 to 2016.
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Mar 5, 2020

Using Data to Support the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Initiative: Data Collection, Metric and Dashboard Creation, and Lessons Learned

The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative was a multiyear effort to improve student outcomes by increasing access to effective teaching. The authors discuss challenges in measuring effectiveness and how the team addressed them.
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Dec 4, 2019

Value-Added Modeling 101: Using Student Test Scores to Help Measure Teaching Effectiveness

The author discusses the use of value-added models (VAMs) to estimate teacher contribution to student progress, account for students' prior characteristics, and enable relative judgments, as well as the limitations of VAMs.
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Nov 7, 2018

Validation Study of the TNTP Core Teaching Rubric

RAND researchers assess whether the TNTP Core Teaching Rubric produces scores that are representative of teachers' overall instructional practices and whether raters' content expertise influences scores on TNTP Core.
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Nov 7, 2018

Considerations for Implementing the TNTP Core Rubric

RAND researchers assessed whether the TNTP Core Teaching Rubric produces scores that are representative of teachers' overall instructional practices and whether raters' content expertise influences scores on TNTP Core.
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Nov 16, 2016

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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Apr 24, 2015

A Value-Added Study of Teacher Spillover Effects Across Four Core Subjects in Middle Schools

This study examined the existence, magnitude, and impact of teacher spillover effects (TSEs) across teachers of four subject areas in student achievement in each of the four subjects at the middle school level.
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Apr 21, 2015

Reviewing Existing Methods to Measure Learning Gain in Higher Education

RAND Europe was commissioned by HEFCE, HEA and BIS to review existing methods for capturing learning gain in higher education. More specifically, we will analyse the form and rationale behind existing measures of learning gain, including the merits and drawbacks to these approaches.
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Feb 3, 2015

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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Jan 19, 2015

Disentangling Disadvantage: Can We Distinguish Good Teaching from Classroom Composition?

This article investigates the use of teacher value-added estimates to assess the distribution of effective teaching across students of varying socioeconomic disadvantage in the presence of classroom composition effects.
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Aug 25, 2014

Measuring Value-Added in Higher Education: Possibilities and Limitations in the Use of Administrative Data

This paper develops a general methodology for measuring the value added of institutions of higher education using commonly available administrative data.
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Aug 22, 2014

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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