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Jasmine Dutton Kessler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers in 13 states are evaluated using value-added models (VAMs), a measure of student growth on standardized tests. The problem is that value-added models evaluate intermediate-level teachers' ability to have students perform on a standardized assessment despite other factors affecting students' academic performance, such as socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Standardized Tests
Tom Swiderski; Sarah Crittenden Fuller; Kevin C. Bastian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We examine the relationship between absenteeism and achievement since the onset of COVID-19. Applying first-differences models to North Carolina administrative data, we estimate that each absence was associated with a 0.0032 standard deviation (SD) decline in math achievement in 2022-23. As students averaged 3.3 more absences in 2022-23 than…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, COVID-19, Pandemics