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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley; Matthew Ryan Lavery; Jessica Holloway; Margarita Pivovarova; Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Local education agencies (LEAs) continue to use value-added models (VAMs) for teacher evaluation policies and purposes, often with consequences attached. Although the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides more flexibility to LEAs, few have discontinued VAM use, suggesting they interpret VAMs as a valid measure of teacher effectiveness. In…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness
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Pullin, Diana – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Recent efforts to change the teaching profession and teacher preparation include a number of innovations to use portfolio assessment, value added measures (VAM), accountability metrics and other corporate education reform ideas. These approaches may provoke considerable potential legal consequences. Traditional constitutional and civil rights…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Teacher Evaluation, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change