Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop - Softcover

National Academy Of Education; National Research Council; Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education; Center For Education; Committee On Value-Added Methodology For Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation, And Educational Accountability

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309148138 ISBN 13: 9780309148139

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2010

Synopsis

Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted considerable attention because of their potential applicability for educational accountability, teacher pay-for-performance systems, school and teacher improvement, program evaluation, and research. Value-added methods involve complex statistical models applied to test data of varying quality. Accordingly, there are many technical challenges to ascertaining the degree to which the output of these models provides the desired estimates. Despite a substantial amount of research over the last decade and a half, overcoming these challenges has proven to be very difficult, and many questions remain unanswered--at a time when there is strong interest in implementing value-added models in a variety of settings.

The National Research Council and the National Academy of Education held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to help identify areas of emerging consensus and areas of disagreement regarding appropriate uses of value-added methods, in an effort to provide research-based guidance to policy makers who are facing decisions about whether to proceed in this direction.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• 1 Introduction to Value-Added Modeling
• 2 Uses and Consequences of Value-Added Models
• 3 Measurement Issues
• 4 Analytic Issues
• 5 Considerations for Policy Makers
• References
• Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants
• Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0309148138
• ISBN 13: 9780309148139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Koenig Judith, Chudowsky Naomi, Braun Henry