Superstar teachers | Harvard Gazette - 2 views
-
high value-added (HVA) teachers — those that do the best job of raising students’ scores on standardized tests.
-
while the new research may identify HVA teachers, it’s still not clear what constitutes good teaching.
-
There’s one predictor of value-added, which is teacher experience. In the first couple of years, teachers’ value-added goes up quite a bit. Beside that, people who have more-advanced degrees, [have] higher SAT scores, graduated from a better college, are certified versus uncertified — none of these things are strong predictors of value-added.”
- ...1 more annotation...