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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Value added measure"”.
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A study of teacher perceptions of the use of student growth measures in teacher evaluation and its effect on school culture
<p>This study explored teacher perceptions of the inclusion of student growth data into the teacher evaluation process and the relationship(s) these perceptions might have on school culture. A positive correlation (p <.001) was found between the inclusion of VAM into the teacher evaluation process …
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Do Teacher Characteristics Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from a Rural State
… and teacher effectiveness. Effectiveness is measured as a teacher's ability to improve student achievement on a standardized test. This analysis focuses on teachers of math and science at the elementary and middle school levels, as well as teachers of algebra, geometry, and 11th grade English …
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Education Reform in England and the Transformation of School Teachers’ Working Lives: A Labour Process Perspective
… Findings reveal that the removal of a contextual value added measure from school performance metrics leads to an increase in teachers’ workloads and an extension of their working hours. This is compounded by an unofficial erosion of teachers’ directed working time that infiltrates through the …
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The external validity of treatment effects: an investigation of educational production
… implementing a novel method for constructing a value-added quality measure that uses a single cross-section of data in which students and teachers are randomly assigned to different-sized classes. The core insight is that constructing the value-added measure within treatment categories creates a …