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One possibility that's already being tried by a number of school systems, including the one in nearby Decatur, Ga.: so-called value-added tests, which gauge a student's progress over the course of a school year rather than merely determining whether the student is performing at grade level. ❋ Kyle Wingfield (2011)
It also scrutinizes those tools themselves, concluding that they are valuable as a way to help teachers improve but only useful as evaluation tools when combined with measures of student learning known as value-added scores. ❋ By MARY ANN GIORDANO (2012)
And to do that, he is cleverly signing up so-called value-added resellers VARs. ❋ Peter Cohan (2011)
The controversy centers largely on using a statistical tool called "value-added" to evaluate teachers. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In a policy environment where value-added analysis is actively being considered as part of how teachers should be evaluated, the reanalysis results are a big deal. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
In addition, the teachers laid off based on seniority have lower average value-added scores than those laid off based on those value-added scores as would inevitably be the case. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
Some don't use value-added analysis at all, and others use it in more sophisticated and less mechanical ways than the Times analysis. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
This suggests an obvious point, but always an important one: The idea of "quality-based" layoffs sounds great in an editorial, but, in practice, measuring "quality" is tenuous even when you predefine it e.g., in terms of value-added. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
But reporters Jason Song and Jason Felch, and the Times editorial board, have raised the use of value-added assessment to a matter of public debate. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
I have not yet heard anyone state publicly that we should conduct layoffs based solely on value-added scores, but assuming these people exist, their policy preference raises a few important questions and issues that bear on the debate. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
Briggs was quick to claim his independence, saying that his work had received no interference at all from the Center, I have no ideological axe to grind at all about the use of value-added assessment or the LA Times. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
For example, in the aforementioned New York simulation, the teachers who would have been fired based on seniority (but were retained in the layoff based on value-added) were only about one-third as effective (relative to their fired colleagues) two years after the simulated layoff (though the difference was still significant). ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
Those who want to use value-added assessment to pay teachers or fire them need to acknowledge the technicall difficulties involved. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
There are different ways of doing this, and researchers who work with value-added analysis usually approach this task with a great deal of transparency because they know that the outcome depends on the method they use. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
Even if we could terminate, say, 10-15 percent fewer teachers using value-added instead of seniority (as was the case in the Washington simulation), this doesn't save money per se (typically, you have to cut a certain amount), it only saves teachers. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
In his model, a teacher's value-added score was based on student California Standardized Test performance moderated by a student's test performance the prior year, English language proficiency, eligibility for federal Title I low income services, and whether he or she began school in LAUSD before or after kindergarten. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
The substantive underlying question is whether value-added analysis can help improve schools or teaching in any practical way. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
Using test scores to judge teachers and principals has become the new currency in reform circles, with sadly misplaced faith in the badly named "value-added" models that experts say are not valid assessment tools. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)
Briggs/Dominque got different results when they analyzed the Times data using the same technique used by Buddin, who works at the RAND Corporation but did the value-added analysis on his own time. ❋ Charles Kerchner (2011)
"Dude, Doritos are now $5.00 a bag, but [it's alright], because the [extra cheese] powder makes them a [Value Added] Product." ❋ Kilroy (2004)
[Employee] #1: By doing this project we will provide [value-added]
Employee #2: You mean we'll add value?
Employee #1: You obviously can't [keep up with] the high energy world of business. ❋ Rlstein (2009)
[Windows 98] had many value added [utilities] on its CD in the VALUEADD [directory]. ❋ Sublimal (2004)
The [Govt] wants to add a Value Added Tax, or VAT because they keep spending money and can't manage their money, as [sales tax], income tax, and death taxes aren't enough. They need to keep raising money to support the middle and low income folk who in turn can't manage their money, so they will keep taking from them to help support them. An alternate solution is to prevent fraud in [govt] social programs and let people spend their own money. ❋ Korgon (2010)
Man why did you invite Susie to the Super Bowl party, she's such a NOVA (No Obvious [Value Added]). She just sat there and said nothing with that [blank look] on her face see whole time. Also see [Super Nova] ❋ CooCoo 4 CoCo Puffs (2013)
"Why did Johnny [go insane]? "
"[Too many] Added [Value] Unitss" ❋ James Wood370 (2014)
