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Direct linkAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – SAGE Open, 2020
The Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), the value-added model (VAM) sold by the international business analytics software company SAS Institute Inc., is advertised as offering "precise, reliable and unbiased results that go far beyond what other simplistic [value-added] models found in the market today can provide." In this…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Test Bias
Diane S. Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In 2012, New Jersey implemented a broad change to the teacher evaluation system with the Teacher Effectiveness and Accountability for the Children of New Jersey (TEACHNJ) Act which identified the Marzano Causal Teacher evaluation system as one of the prescribe models for districts to adopt. This system provides a more differentiated teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Grade 5, Public Schools, Value Added Models
Geiger, Tray J.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Holloway, Jessica – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
For this study, researchers critically reviewed documents pertaining to the highest profile of the 15 teacher evaluation lawsuits that occurred throughout the U.S. as pertaining to the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers. In New Mexico, teacher plaintiffs contested how they were being evaluated and held accountable using a homegrown…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Teacher Responsibility, Accountability, Value Added Models
Geiger, Tray; Amerein-Beardsley, Audrey – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), the value-added model (VAM) sold by the business analytics software company SAS Institute Inc., is advertised as offering "precise, reliable and unbiased results that go far beyond what other simplistic [value-added] models found in the market today can provide." In this study, we…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Teacher Evaluation
Robinson, Mitchell – Arts Education Policy Review, 2019
Recent corporate education reform policies have replaced relatively informal systems of principal observations that had been familiar to many teachers for much of their professional careers with high-stakes teacher evaluation (HSTE) systems that now determine who is allowed to remain in the profession and who gets terminated. Many education…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Bowers, Janet; Smith, Wendy; Ren, Lixin; Hanna, Robert – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2019
The need to incorporate active learning (AL) in higher education has become a prominent issue discussed by major leadership organizations such as the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS, 2016). These calls for AL are based on a large and growing body of research documenting the correlation between AL use and reduced failure rates,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Calculus, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Horn, Aaron S.; Horner, Olena G.; Lee, Giljae – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Researchers in higher education frequently evaluate institutional effectiveness as the difference between an actual and predicted graduation rate, but little is known about whether such a method is reliable or valid. This study examines the measurement properties of effectiveness scores derived from regression residuals for community colleges in…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Two Year Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Raw Scores
Download full textTapsir, Ruzela; Nik Azis, Nik Pa – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
Value has been identified as an essential aspect towards the quality in mathematics education at various levels of the system, institutional, curriculum, education management, and classroom interactions. However, few studies were focused on values, its development, measurement, and impact in education as compared to other affective aspects such as…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Mathematics Education, Value Added Models, Test Construction
Hutchins, Shaun D. – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this Professional Pathways for Teachers (PPfT) evaluation was to examine the measurement validity and reliability of PPfT appraisal data from the 2017-2018 school year in the Austin Independent School District. The PPfT appraisal is a multi-measure system that covers three areas: instructional practices (IP), professional growth and…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, School Districts, Teacher Evaluation
Hutchins, Shaun D. – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this Professional Pathways for Teachers (PPfT) evaluation was to examine the measurement validity and reliability of PPfT appraisal data from the 2017-2018 school year in the Austin Independent School District. The PPfT appraisal is a multi-measure system that covers three areas: instructional practices (IP), professional growth and…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, School Districts, Teacher Evaluation
Castellano, Katherine E.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
Mean or median student growth percentiles (MGPs) are a popular measure of educator performance, but they lack rigorous evaluation. This study investigates the error in MGP due to test score measurement error (ME). Using analytic derivations, we find that errors in the commonly used MGP are correlated with average prior latent achievement: Teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Models, Achievement Gains
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Houston's experience with the Educational Value-Added Assessment System (R) (EVAAS) raises questions that other districts should consider before buying the software and using it for high-stakes decisions. Researchers found that teachers in Houston, all of whom were under the EVAAS gun, but who taught relatively more racial minority students,…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Districts, Computer Software, Educational Technology
