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The Promise of Value-Added Testing
Abstract:
It is not entirely true that good schools are those with students who have high test scores, writes the author. The best way to measure the quality of schools or teachers is to determine how much they change their students' test scores each year. The author believes that this value-added approach, used in tandem with the traditional look at achievement levels, could yield at least three benefits: 1) make the No Child Left Behind Act more effective by providing a more accurate picture of which schools, school districts, and states are and are not making progress; 2) generate objective measures of teacher quality that could be used to improve teaching; and 3) create a system that lends itself more readily to evaluating school reform programs.
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| Strand(s): | Incentives |
| Author: | Crane, J. |
| URL: | http://www.ppionline.org/documents/Value_Added_Testing.pdf |
| Publisher: | Progressive Policy Institute |
| Publication Date: | 2002, November |
| Publication City: | Washington |
| Publication State: | DC |
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