Category Archives: Value-added

Goal displacement and testing

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Bruce Thompson

One of the dangers of any metric is that the metric itself becomes the goal. Thus, rather than concentrating on making sure students become competent readers, schools may concentrate on trying to improve the reading test scores, by concentrating on … Continue reading →

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Value-added models

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Bruce Thompson

Like it or not, value added models seem to be coming, including for teacher evaluations. I have added a discussion of them here.

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