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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Holloway, Jessica – Educational Policy, 2019
Despite the concerns regarding value-added models (VAMs), advocates hold strong to VAMs' theoretical strengths and potentials, while adopting a set of agreed-upon albeit "heroic" set of assumptions, without research in support. These assumptions transcend promotional, policy, media, and research-based pieces, but they have never been…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Accountability, Educational Change
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Storie, Gary; Denner, Peter R. – Current Issues in Education, 2015
In the fall of 2012, Idaho implemented a plan to award bonus pay to schools whose students demonstrated academic growth based on the Betebenner (2008) method. This study examined the relationship of the amount of bonus paid to a school, the percentage of students from low income families associated with a school, and the location of the school…
Descriptors: Scores, Merit Pay, Low Income Groups, Geographic Location