VAMs typically measure correlation, not causation
Times-Union Reporters On The Publication Of Individual State Teacher Scores | WJCT NEWS - 21 views
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Jacksonville newspaper The Florida Times-Union wins the battle with FLDOE over the release of state's teacher evaluation scores which use the value-added model (VAM) to determine teacher effectiveness. Link to an approx. 12 minute radio broadcast of a public radio show - First Coast Connect - on WJCT Stereo 90.
Statisticians slam popular teacher evaluation method - 69 views
High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labeling her 'ineffective' - The Wash... - 94 views
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statistical black box
Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views
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the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
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to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
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I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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