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Direct linkPaige, Mark A.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Educational Researcher, 2020
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 established a viable federal constitutional claim to challenge the use of VAMs as a means for their termination…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Employment, Court Litigation
Tobiason, Glory – Educational Researcher, 2019
This study turns a rhetorical lens on the debate about how best to use value-added modeling (VAM) in teacher evaluation by addressing the question, Which arguments legitimize the dismissal of expert caution about proposed education reforms? My rhetorical analysis of a corpus of nonacademic texts (e.g., newspapers, magazines, political speeches)…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, Expertise
Rodriguez, Luis A.; Hunter, Seth B. – Educational Researcher, 2021
Previous reports suggest that administrators rarely dismiss low-performing teachers despite the changing policy landscape allowing them to do so. This brief uses survey data from Tennessee to investigate the underlying reasons explaining administrators' decisions to retain low-performing teachers. The presented analysis suggests that…
Descriptors: Decision Making, School Administration, Principals, Assistant Principals
Download full textMatthew Ronfeldt; Stacey L. Brockman; Shanyce L. Campbell – Educational Researcher, 2018
Increasingly, states and teacher education programs are establishing minimum requirements for cooperating teachers' (CTs') years of experience or tenure. Undergirding these policies is an assumption that to effectively mentor preservice teachers (PSTs), CTs must themselves be instructionally effective. We test this assumption using statewide…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers, Mentors
Steinberg, Matthew P.; Kraft, Matthew A. – Educational Researcher, 2017
In recent years, states and districts have responded to federal incentives and pressure to institute major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 now provides state policymakers with even greater autonomy to redesign existing evaluation systems. Yet, little evidence exists to inform…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Atteberry, Allison; Mangan, Daniel – Educational Researcher, 2020
Papay (2011) noticed that teacher value-added measures (VAMs) from a statistical model using the most common pre/post testing timeframe--current-year spring relative to previous spring (SS)--are essentially unrelated to those same teachers' VAMs when instead using next-fall relative to current-fall (FF). This is concerning since this choice--made…
Descriptors: Correlation, Value Added Models, Pretests Posttests, Decision Making
