TAILIEUCHUNG - Using Student Progress To Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models

Today, democratic public media systems in Europe, North America, and elsewhere face challenges on a number of fronts. Far more than partisan political meddling (though this has occurred in some cases, notably in France), European scholars and journalists we consulted for this study emphasized the threat to public broadcasters posed by increasing commercial pressures, and, in general, the increasing difficulty of balancing the need to appeal to a broad audience (to justify the license fee) and to uphold public service values such as high-quality programming across multiple genres, in-depth information, promotion of democratic citizenship, and provision of “access to and. | Liy. Policy Information PERSPECTIVE Using Student Progress To Evaluate Teachers A Primer on Value-Added Models by Henry I. Braun Listening. Learning. Leading. Policy Information Center Additional copies of this report can be ordered for each prepaid from Policy Information Center Mail Stop 19-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Princeton NJ 08541-0001 609 734-5949 e-mail pic@ Copies can be downloaded for free at research pic Copyright 2005 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. Educational Testing Service is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer. The modernized ETS logo is a registered trademark of Educational Testing Service. September 2005 Table of Contents Executive Questions About Measuring Why Is There Such Interest in Value-Added Modeling .6 What Is the Fundamental Concern About VAMs .7 What Are Some Specific Concerns About Treating Estimated Teacher Effects as Measures of Teacher Effectiveness .8 What Value-Added Models Are Now in Use .10 How Does EVAAS Work .11 What Are Some of the Issues in Using Student Achievement Data in Teacher Evaluation .13 Where Do We Stand .15 .

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