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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the estimated value that is added to a product or material at each stage of its manufacture or distribution.
  • adjective Relating to or having an enhancement or feature that increases value.

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Examples

  • We are extremely excited to have world-class investor KKR as our long-term value-added partner.

    unknown title 2011

  • One possibility that's already being tried by a number of school systems, including the one in nearby Decatur, Ga.: so-called value-added tests, which gauge a student's progress over the course of a school year rather than merely determining whether the student is performing at grade level.

    When Teachers Cheat—And Then Blame the Tests Kyle Wingfield 2011

  • And to do that, he is cleverly signing up so-called value-added resellers VARs.

    Forbes.com: News Peter Cohan 2011

  • It also scrutinizes those tools themselves, concluding that they are valuable as a way to help teachers improve but only useful as evaluation tools when combined with measures of student learning known as value-added scores.

    NYT > Home Page By MARY ANN GIORDANO 2012

  • The controversy centers largely on using a statistical tool called "value-added" to evaluate teachers.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • For example, in the aforementioned New York simulation, the teachers who would have been fired based on seniority (but were retained in the layoff based on value-added) were only about one-third as effective (relative to their fired colleagues) two years after the simulated layoff (though the difference was still significant).

    Eliminating seniority-based layoffs: 4 things to consider Valerie Strauss 2011

  • In addition, the teachers laid off based on seniority have lower average value-added scores than those laid off based on those value-added scores as would inevitably be the case.

    Eliminating seniority-based layoffs: 4 things to consider Valerie Strauss 2011

  • This suggests an obvious point, but always an important one: The idea of "quality-based" layoffs sounds great in an editorial, but, in practice, measuring "quality" is tenuous even when you predefine it e.g., in terms of value-added.

    Eliminating seniority-based layoffs: 4 things to consider Valerie Strauss 2011

  • Even if we could terminate, say, 10-15 percent fewer teachers using value-added instead of seniority (as was the case in the Washington simulation), this doesn't save money per se (typically, you have to cut a certain amount), it only saves teachers.

    Eliminating seniority-based layoffs: 4 things to consider Valerie Strauss 2011

  • Using test scores to judge teachers and principals has become the new currency in reform circles, with sadly misplaced faith in the badly named "value-added" models that experts say are not valid assessment tools.

    Poll on NCLB: Americans want overhaul (but does Congress?) Valerie Strauss 2011

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