Title
Harris, Douglas N., Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2011.
Annotation
Provides a well-argued technical, but understandable, analysis of the pros and cons of using value-added measures in accountability systems for making policy decisions on individual teachers, schools, programs, and state standards-based on aggregates of student achievement data.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Policies and Policy Making
Source Discipline
Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Evaluative Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Curriculum Standards and Testing, Student Assessment, Teacher Evaluation, Program Audit/Evaluation, Evaluation of Instruction
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