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Chingos, Matthew M.; Blagg, Kristin – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2015
The release of institution-level earnings information as part of the Obama Administration's new College Scorecard data has already spawned new "value-added" rankings based on the economic outcomes of students who attended similar institutions. These emerging rankings are an improvement on simple unadjusted rankings, but the wide variance…
Descriptors: Educational Mobility, Regression (Statistics), Outcomes of Education, Family Income
Goldhaber, Dan; Chaplin, Duncan – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
In a provocative and influential paper, Jesse Rothstein (2010) finds that standard value-added models (VAMs) suggest implausible future teacher effects on past student achievement, a finding that obviously cannot be viewed as causal. This is the basis of a falsification test (the Rothstein falsification test) that appears to indicate bias in VAM…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Correlation