Value-Added

The Los Angeles Times launched a series on "Value-Added" assessments last year, and they continue to stand by it, despite the reportedly high error rate.

David Lyell: Linking Teacher Evaluation to Student Test Scores: Wrong 25% of the Time David Lyell 2011

Growth Over Time, which in most of its aspects is identical to Value-Added models used by the LA Times.

David Lyell: Linking Teacher Evaluation to Student Test Scores: Wrong 25% of the Time David Lyell 2011

During that year, the Treasury tax policy office had conducted among other things an analysis of the Value-Added Tax, and had rejected that alternative for reasons that remain, in my view, valid today.

James K. Galbraith: Testimony on Sensible Tax Reform James K. Galbraith 2011

The Los Angeles Times launched a series on "Value-Added" assessments last year, and they continue to stand by it, despite the reportedly high error rate.

David Lyell: Linking Teacher Evaluation to Student Test Scores: Wrong 25% of the Time David Lyell 2011

Today, it is generated by a team led by Rob Meyer, Director of the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin.

Natalie Ravitz: Let's Stop Pretending Poor Kids Can't Learn Natalie Ravitz 2010

In their recent study of the impact of high-"Value-Added" teachers, Raj Chetty and his colleagues find that a student who was able to substitute an extremely weak teacher -- one who ranked in the bottom 5% of the distribution of all teachers -- for one substantially better, would reap benefits into adulthood.

Elaine Weiss: The Chetty No-Brainer: Invest in Pre-K Elaine Weiss 2012

Narayan Mahon for The Wall Street Journal Rob Meyer, director of the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, calls his statistical model a 'well-crafted recipe.'

Teachers Are Put to the Test Stephanie Banchero 2011

"We have to deliver quality and speed, because schools need the data now," said Rob Meyer, the bowtie-wearing economist who runs the Value-Added Research Center, known as VARC, and calls his statistical model a "well-crafted recipe."

Teachers Are Put to the Test Stephanie Banchero 2011

The metric created by Value-Added Research Center, a nonprofit housed at the University of Wisconsin's education department, is a new kind of report card that attempts to gauge how much of students' growth on tests is attributable to the teacher.

Teachers Are Put to the Test Stephanie Banchero 2011

Did Garcia or Deasy correct Fletcher's assertion that AGT is mostly identical to Value-Added models?

David Lyell: Linking Teacher Evaluation to Student Test Scores: Wrong 25% of the Time David Lyell 2011