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Goldhaber, Dan; Chaplin, Duncan Dunbar – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
In an influential paper, Jesse Rothstein (2010) shows that standard value-added models (VAMs) suggest implausible and large future teacher effects on past student achievement. This is the basis of a falsification test that "appears" to indicate bias in typical VAM estimates of teacher contributions to student learning on standardized…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Influence, Models
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Hedges, Larry V. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2007
A common mistake in analysis of cluster randomized trials is to ignore the effect of clustering and analyze the data as if each treatment group were a simple random sample. This typically leads to an overstatement of the precision of results and anticonservative conclusions about precision and statistical significance of treatment effects. This…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Computation, Cluster Grouping, Statistics