Showing posts with label value-added. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value-added. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2012

'Value Added' Concept Proves Beneficial to Teacher Colleges

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'Value Added' Concept Proves Beneficial to Teacher Colleges Only because there is a poverty in imagination and a real lack of unde...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’

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Excellent analysis of "value-added" modeling and why it's a bad idea.  Quotes from within:   "When value-added model...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students

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Wow, $335M to associate two student test scores to a few characteristics. Someone is making a lot of money to help push a narrow teacher ef...
Monday, November 08, 2010

HISD looks at how to grade teachers

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New criteria for evaluation will likely include kids' test scores By ERICKA MELLON | HOUSTON CHRONICLE Nov. 8, 2010 About 99 percent...
Monday, December 28, 2009

School-label method changing

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State education officials looking for more-precise way to measure progress by Pat Kossan | The Arizona Republic Dec. 13, 2009 The way Arizon...

Value-added education in the race to the top

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David Davenport | SF Gate Sunday, November 29, 2009 Bill Clinton may have invented triangulation - the art of finding a "third way...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Superintendent spreads the gospel of 'value-added' teacher evaluations

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Interesting sidenote mentioned in this article: "FOR THE RECORD: Teacher evaluations: An article in some editions of the Oct. 18 Sectio...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Educators want TAKS to count progress

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By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE | Houston Chronicle May 13, 2008 Texas students should be measured on gains they make throughout the school year, rath...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Gates funding gives boost to HISD program

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Sounds like 4.5 million new reasons to promote teaching to the tests. -Patricia $4.5 million to help train teachers new way to analyze stude...