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Herman, Joan L.; Heritage, Margaret; Goldschmidt, Pete – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2011
States and districts across the country are grappling with how to incorporate assessments of student learning into their teacher evaluation systems. Sophisticated statistical models have been proposed to estimate the relative value individual teachers add to their students' assessment performance (hence the term teacher "value-added" measures).…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Testing, Test Selection, Test Construction
Herman, Joan L.; Heritage, Margaret; Goldschmidt, Pete – Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2011
States and districts across the country are grappling with how to incorporate assessments of student learning into their teacher evaluation systems. Sophisticated statistical models have been proposed to estimate the relative value individual teachers add to their students' assessment performance (hence the term teacher "value-added" measures).…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Testing, Test Selection, Test Construction
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Simmons, Robert M. – 1979
Information regarding state minimum competency testing programs was requested from the 50 state departments of education in the United States in the spring of 1979. The following questions were asked: (1) Do you have a testing program? (2) If you do, what tests are being used? (3) Do you have a testing program in the planning stages? (4) Are there…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Requirements, Minimum Competency Testing