Sentence examples for value-added measures from inspiring English sources

"We don't have evidence that this approach is going to improve teaching and learning," said Douglas Harris, an expert on value-added modeling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the 2011 book Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know.

Houston gave bonuses based in part on value-added measures, though that program was reorganized.

Such "value-added" measures of teacher effectiveness should be a part of teacher evaluation, but not the only part.

The authors argue that school districts should use value-added measures in evaluations, and to remove the lowest performers, despite the disruption and uncertainty involved.

Still, they offer a peek at the state's future evaluation system, which will use value-added measures for at least 20 percent of teachers' evaluations.

The researchers then look at the effectiveness of a number of ways of assessing teachers, including classroom observations, value-added measures, pupil feedback, judgements from senior leaders, self-reports and looking at lesson plans and assignments and teacher portfolios, including reflective logs.

"Some research institutions have good reason to be worried – they won't necessarily come out the right side of a value-added measure," he says.

The government was right to drop the "contextual value-added" measure, introduced by Labour five years ago, from this week's league tables, he says.

Howe Dell is also proud of its "value-added" measure, which gauges how much a school has improved the performances of its pupils since their arrival.

The reason is that unlike the previous contextual value-added measure used under the last Labour government, Progress 8 compares pupil performance with a national picture, rather than matching schools with similar intakes.

In my research, I have found that a principal's holistic, "subjective" evaluation of a teacher is highly correlated with an "objective" value-added measure of teacher effectiveness for the top and bottom teachers.