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Direct linkScherrer, Jimmy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The use of value-added modeling (VAM) in school accountability is expanding, but deciding how to embrace VAM is difficult. Various experts say it's too unreliable, causes more harm than good, and has a big margin for error. Others assert VAM is imperfect but useful, and provides valuable feedback. A closer look at the models, and their use,…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Accountability, Models, Data
Download full textBaroody, Arthur J.; Gannon, Kathleen E. – 1983
Addition strategies used by 36 kindergarten children were examined. Children were given written stimuli (such as "2+5" and "3+7") during two sessions taking place a week apart. Results indicated that once children came to rely on mental addition strategies, they often quickly invented more economical procedures to compute sums. Also confirmed was…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Instruction
