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Direct linkLavery, Matthew; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray; Pivovarova, Margarita – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: The Race to the Top federal initiatives and requirements surrounding waivers of No Child Left Behind promoted expanded use of value-added models (VAMs) to evaluate teachers. Even after passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) relaxed these requirements, allowing more flexibility and local control, many states and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – SAGE Open, 2020
The Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), the value-added model (VAM) sold by the international business analytics software company SAS Institute Inc., is advertised as offering "precise, reliable and unbiased results that go far beyond what other simplistic [value-added] models found in the market today can provide." In this…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Test Bias
Geiger, Tray; Amerein-Beardsley, Audrey – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), the value-added model (VAM) sold by the business analytics software company SAS Institute Inc., is advertised as offering "precise, reliable and unbiased results that go far beyond what other simplistic [value-added] models found in the market today can provide." In this study, we…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Teacher Evaluation
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Contemporary teacher evaluation systems are built upon multiple measures including, primarily, teacher-level value-added and observational estimates. While researchers have conducted examinations of these systems and indicators, researchers have not investigated how using these systems might distort the validity of the inferences being drawn,…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Computation, Teacher Evaluation, Accountability
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Houston's experience with the Educational Value-Added Assessment System (R) (EVAAS) raises questions that other districts should consider before buying the software and using it for high-stakes decisions. Researchers found that teachers in Houston, all of whom were under the EVAAS gun, but who taught relatively more racial minority students,…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Districts, Computer Software, Educational Technology
