Teacher-Level Value-Added Models on Trial: Empirical and Pragmatic Issues of Concern across Five Court Cases

Autor/inn/en	Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Close, Kevin
Titel	Teacher-Level Value-Added Models on Trial: Empirical and Pragmatic Issues of Concern across Five Court Cases
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 35 (2021) 6, S.866-907 (42 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904819843593
Schlagwörter	Value Added Models; Court Litigation; Teacher Evaluation; Reliability; Validity; Bias; Legal Problems; Accountability; New Mexico; New York; Tennessee; Texas (Houston) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rechtsstreit; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Reliabilität; Gültigkeit; Verantwortung
Abstract	Ongoing or recently completed across the United States are a series of lawsuits via which teacher plaintiffs are contesting how they are being evaluated using value-added models (VAMs) as part of states'/districts' teacher accountability systems. To investigate the empirical and pragmatic matters addressed in court, researchers conducted a case study analysis of the documents submitted for five such cases. Researchers framed analyses using measurement concepts resident within the "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing," given issues with (a) reliability, (b) validity, (c) bias, (d) transparency, and (e) fairness, with emphases also on (f) whether VAMs are being used to make consequential decisions using concrete (e.g., not arbitrary) evidence, and (g) whether VAMs' unintended consequences are also of legal pertinence and concern. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01