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Direct linkBitler, Marianne; Corcoran, Sean; Domina, Thurston; Penner, Emily – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job performance. In this paper, we conduct a new test of the validity of value-added models. Using…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Value Added Models, Validity
Download full textLaura Holian; Catharine Warner-Griffin – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand how a school-based personalized learning approach can help improve literacy achievement among middle grades students in a rural area. This study followed two cohorts of schools serving students in grades 6-8 in northeast Tennessee for one year each (2018-19 and 2021-22), to assess student and school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Peer reviewedBraun, Alisha M. B.; Youngs, Peter – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
In this multiple case study, we apply sense-making theory to examine and compare how middle school special and general educators perceive and respond to teacher evaluation reform, including formal classroom observations, informal walk-throughs, and student growth measures. Our findings reveal that special educators experience conflict between the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Evaluation
Huguet, Alice; Holtzman, Deborah J.; Robyn, Abby; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Todd, Ivy; Choi, Linda; Baird, Matthew D.; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Garet, Michael S.; Stecher, Brian M.; Engberg, John – RAND Corporation, 2020
In 2018, The RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) published an evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching (IP) initiative, which was designed to improve achievement among low-income minority (LIM) students. The initiative provided support for several reforms that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Improvement, Educational Change
