Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education

Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvAudrey Amrein-Beardsley

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Since passage of the of No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, academic researchers, econometricians, and statisticians have been exploring various analytical methods of documenting students‘ academic progress over time. Known as value-added models (VAMs), these methods are meant to measure the value a teacher or school adds to student learning from one year to the next. To date, however, there is very little evidence to support the trustworthiness of these models. What is becoming increasingly evident, yet often ignored mainly by policymakers, is that VAMs are 1) unreliable, 2) invalid, 3) nontransparent, 4) unfair, 5) fraught with measurement errors and 6) being inappropriately used to make consequential decisions regarding such things as teacher pay, retention, and termination. Unfortunately, their unintended consequences are not fully recognized at this point either. Given such, the timeliness of this well-researched and thoughtful book cannot be overstated. This book sheds important light on the debate surrounding VAMs and thereby offers states and practitioners a highly important resource from which they can move forward in more research-based ways.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-04-28
Mått174 x 246 x 16 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor251
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415820127

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Section I: IntroductionChapter 1: Socially Engineering the Road to UtopiaChapter 2: Value-Added Models (VAMs) and the Human FactorChapter 3: A VAMoramic View of the NationSection II: Highly Questionable Yet Often Unquestioned AssumptionsChapter 4: Assumptions Used as Rationales and Justifications Chapter 5: Test-Based, Statistical, and Methodological AssumptionsSection III: Nontraditional Concerns about Traditional Methodological NotionsChapter 6: Reliability and ValidityChapter 7: Bias and the Random Assignment of Students into ClassroomsSection IV: Alternatives, Solutions, and Conclusions Chapter 8: Alternatives, Solutions, and Conclusions

"Amrein-Beardsley (Arizona State Univ.) gives readers a thorough critique of the various analytical measures used to document students’ academic progress over time as such measures are used to assess the value of a teacher and/or school...Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections."- A. L. Hsu, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, in CHOICE, January 2015"Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education is the single most comprehensive resource on the uses and abuses of Value-added Measurement (VAM) in U.S. education policy. There is something for everyone in this text: from definitions for those with no background in statistics to thorough discussions of the reining positions and debates between researchers. It therefore serves as a primer on education policy as well as a deep dive into the specifics of VAM." —Education Review