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Direct linkMargarita Pivovarova; Audrey Amrein-Beardsley – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2024
In this study, we estimated the relationship between two popular measures of teacher effectiveness--teachers' value-added model (VAM) estimates, represented in this study via median growth percentiles (MGPs), and teachers' observational scores, derived from the TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement. We examined the relationship between…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Value Added Models, Correlation
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
Until recently, legal challenges to using value-added models (VAMs) throughout the United States (US) for high-stakes teacher evaluative decisions (e.g., merit pay, tenure, and termination) were unsuccessful, especially in the state of Florida. Hence, prior and still, multiple teachers throughout Florida have been terminated or involuntarily…
Descriptors: Teacher Dismissal, Case Studies, Court Litigation, Value Added Models
Guarino, Cassandra M.; Stacy, Brian W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
Nations, states, and districts must choose among an array of different approaches to measuring school effectiveness in implementing their accountability policies, and the choice can be difficult because different approaches yield different results. This study compares two approaches to computing school effectiveness: a "beating the odds"…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, School Effectiveness, Decision Making, Accountability
Download full textRimsaite, Renata; Kreye, Melissa M. – Journal of Extension, 2021
Extension professionals face challenges in quantifying the impact of their efforts in advancing the decision-making process inherent in setting natural resources policy. We developed a flexible tool that measures the impact of improving decision makers' planning efforts. The tool consists of two sets of survey questions that can be modified to fit…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Natural Resources, Planning
Noell, George H.; Burns, Jeanne M.; Gansle, Kristin A. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
Systemic efforts to strengthen teacher preparation in Louisiana led to the first statewide value-added assessment (VAA) of teacher preparation programs (TPPs). Subsequently, a number of states have adopted VAA of TPPs. The authors describe challenges that were confronted around the deployment of Louisiana's VAA of TPPs. The discussion is organized…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Statewide Planning, Teacher Education Programs, Program Improvement
Kane, Thomas J., Ed.; Kerr, Kerri A., Ed.; Pianta, Robert C., Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2014
What is effective teaching? It is not enough to say "I know it when I see it"--not when we are expecting so much more from students and teachers than in the past. To help teachers achieve greater success with their students we need new and better ways to identify and develop effective teaching. The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET)…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Definitions, Best Practices
Michael J. Feuer; Robert E. Floden; Naomi Chudowsky; Judie Ahn – National Academy of Education, 2013
Teacher preparation programs (TPPs) are where prospective teachers gain a foundation of knowledge about pedagogy and subject matter, as well as early exposure to practical classroom experience. Although competence in teaching, as in all professions, is shaped significantly by on-the-job experiences and continuous learning, the programs that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness
