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Papay, John P. – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
Recently, educational researchers and practitioners have turned to value-added models to evaluate teacher performance. Although value-added estimates depend on the assessment used to measure student achievement, the importance of outcome selection has received scant attention in the literature. Using data from a large, urban school district, I…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests
Zalon, Margarete Lieb – 1991
Certain types of evaluation tools used in continuing education offerings limit the evaluation process and hence the value of the offering. Asking a yes/no question as an exclusive evaluation method for learners' achievement of objectives is inappropriate for certain types of offerings. Provision should be made for assessment of continuing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Continuing Education