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Value-added measures in education : what every educator needs to know / Douglas N. Harris.

By: Harris, Douglas N.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2011Description: ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781612500003(pbk.).Subject(s): Effective teaching | Educational accountability | Teacher effectiveness | Multicultural education -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Exploring the potential of value-added performance measures -- Using - and misusing - achievement tests -- Measuring student growth -- Creating value-added measures -- Understanding statistical errors in value-added -- Shifting from school to teacher value-added -- Shifting from school to teacher value-added -- Marshaling the evidence about value-added -- Evaluating value-added measures and avoiding double standards -- Using value-added to improve teaching and learning -- Creating value-added measures that match their uses -- Addressing key trade-offs, misconceptions, and questions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-251) and index.

Exploring the potential of value-added performance measures -- Using - and misusing - achievement tests -- Measuring student growth -- Creating value-added measures -- Understanding statistical errors in value-added -- Shifting from school to teacher value-added -- Shifting from school to teacher value-added -- Marshaling the evidence about value-added -- Evaluating value-added measures and avoiding double standards -- Using value-added to improve teaching and learning -- Creating value-added measures that match their uses -- Addressing key trade-offs, misconceptions, and questions.

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