Value Added Accountability
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A Focus on Value-Added Measures
This link to the Carnegie Knowledge Network provides an introduction to a series of briefs discussing aspects of value-added measures.
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Do Different Value-Added Models Tell Us the Same Things?
This Carnegie Knowledge Network knowledge brief explores the use of different value-added measure and whether they provide the same information on teacher performance.
Do Value-Added Methods Level the Playing Field for Teachers?
This Carnegie Knowledge Network knowledge brief explores whether and how value-added methods level the playing field for teachers.
Getting Value Out of Value-Added Report of a Workshop
This link to the National Academies Press website provides a report on the November 2008 workshop on value added models. The workshop was sponsored by the Committee on Value-Added Methodology for Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation, and Educational Accountability. The report provides an introduction to value-added modeling, discusses the use of value-added modeling, addresses measurement and analytic issues, and explores consideration for policymakers. An electronic version of the report is available at the site.
How Do Value-Added Indicators Compare to Other Measures of Teacher Effectiveness?
This Carnegie Knowledge Network knowledge brief discusses how value-added models compare to other methods of evaluating teacher effectiveness.
How Should Educators Interpret Value-Added Scores?
This Carnegie Knowledge Network knowledge brief explores how to interpret the value-added data.
How Stable are Value-Added Estimates across Years, Subjects, and Student Groups?
This Carnegie Knowledge Network knowledge brief looks at the issue consistency of value-added scores over time.
Using Student Progress to Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models
This Education Testing Service (ETS) policy information perspective examines value-added models and provides advice for policymakers on both the potential and the limitations in using such models to evaluate teachers.
Where is the Value in Value-Added Modeling?
This Pearson Assessments white paper explores value-added modeling. AS noted in its Abstract, “This paper provides an overview of value-added modeling (VAM), including definitions and descriptions of three general types of value-added models. The paper then summarizes the rationales for and against incorporating VAM into an accountability framework. Finally, it provides a recommendation that VAM estimates be used in conjunction with other measures to form a composite.”
