Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added

Steven Glazerman, Susanna Loeb, Dan Goldhaber, Doug Staiger, Stephen Raudenbush and Grover Whitehurst

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Abstract: This paper clarifies four areas of confusion about value-added methodology and its role in teacher evaluation: (1) use of value-added information; (2) consequences for teachers versus those for students of classifying and misclassifying teachers as effective or ineffective; (3) reliability of value-added measures of teacher performance and standards for evaluations in other fields; and (4) reliability of teacher evaluation systems that include value-added versus those that do not.

Keywords: Evaluation of Teachers; Value-Added; Teacher Performance; New Teacher Project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
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