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Does value-added correlate with principal evaluations?
- 11-07-2011
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Blog by Gary Rubinstein/Teach For Us
Perhaps the most controversial issue in Ed Reform is whether or not it is fair to tie teacher evaluation to their ‘performance’ as defined by reformers as how their students do on standardized exams. Since even reformers acknowledge that teachers aren’t able to take students from a low starting score to any absolute target of high performance, they have devised something that is intended to be fair. It is known as ‘value-added.’ The idea, which has been around for about 30 years, is that there could be a way to compare how a teacher’s students do on some test with how those same students would have done in a parallel universe where they had an ‘average’ teacher instead. If it is possible to make such a measurement, it would determine that teacher’s individual contribution to his student’s ‘learning.’ To someone who is not a teacher, this sounds reasonable enough. (more...)
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