Value-Added Modeling for Teacher Effectiveness

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By Erin D. Lomax (au); Jeffrey J. Kuenzi (au)
Year: 2012
Pages: 20
Binding Paperback
ISBN 978-1-4578-4211-5

Product Code: 1457842114

Description

Two of the major goals of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110; NCLB), are to improve the quality of K-12 teaching and raise the academic achievement of students who fail to meet grade-level proficiency standards. In setting these goals, Congress recognized that reaching the second goal depends greatly on meeting the first; that is, quality teaching is critical to student success. Thus, NCLB established new standards for teacher qualifications and required that all courses in äóìcore academic subjectsäó be taught by a highly qualified teacher by the end of the 2005-2006 school year. This report addresses issues associated with the evaluation of teacher effectiveness based on student growth in achievement. It focuses specifically on a method of evaluation referred to as value-added modeling (VAM). Although there are other methods for assessing teacher effectiveness, in the last decade, VAM has garnered increasing attention in education research and policy due to its promise as a more objective method of evaluation. This is a print on demand report.

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