Showing posts with label value added. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value added. Show all posts
Thursday, June 23, 2016

June meeting of the Board of Ed

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The Massachusetts Board of Education has their regular monthly meeting on Monday and Tuesday of next week; you can find the agenda here . ...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Professor Jack Schneider, professor at Holy Cross, "Measuring School Quality Beyond Test Scores"

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Posting these now as I couldn't get on Blogger in Medford High. All notes mine, and Prof. Schneider has the distinction of being one of...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

When are we going to give up on this silly idea?

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Value-added measurements of teachers DON'T WORK . In a study published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal  Educational Evaluation an...
Friday, April 25, 2014

The insanity in push on evaluating teacher training programs

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A telling couple of paragraphs from today's Politico article : A recent study  funded by the Education Department found that value-a...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Value-added and Student Growth models still a mess

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I haven't posted in some time about the new teacher evaluation method we're rolling out. While the goal setting and classroom observ...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

And since we're still forging onward in value-added measurements

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(or, in Massachusetts, Student Growth Percentages, which are even more volatile) ...you'll want to go take a look at Bruce Baker's c...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Tenure dying in NYC

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Today's report in the New York Times shows a categorical shift in New York City public schools: nearly half of the teachers up for ten...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

but we use Student Growth Percentiles!

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and they aren't any better at measuring "teacher input." Unfortunately, while SGP*s are becoming quite popular across states...