False Performance Gains: A Critique of Successive Cohort Indicators

Steven Glazerman and Liz Potamites

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Abstract: There are many ways to use student test scores to evaluate schools. This paper defines and examines different estimators including regression-based value-added indicators, average gains, and successive cohort differences in achievement levels.

Keywords: Value-Added; Student; Achievement; Student; Test; Scores; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
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