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Lavery, Matthew; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray; Pivovarova, Margarita – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: The Race to the Top federal initiatives and requirements surrounding waivers of No Child Left Behind promoted expanded use of value-added models (VAMs) to evaluate teachers. Even after passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) relaxed these requirements, allowing more flexibility and local control, many states and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Contemporary teacher evaluation systems are built upon multiple measures including, primarily, teacher-level value-added and observational estimates. While researchers have conducted examinations of these systems and indicators, researchers have not investigated how using these systems might distort the validity of the inferences being drawn,…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Computation, Teacher Evaluation, Accountability