Good report on the flaw in some current thinking about teacher evaluation from NEPC. The value added approach is a simplistic strategy for determining teaching effectiveness.
Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers
by Derek C. Briggs, Ben Domingue
February 8, 2011
The research on which the Los Angeles Times relied for its August 2010 teacher effectiveness reporting was demonstrably inadequate to support the published rankings. Using the same L.A. Unified School District data and the same methods as the Times, this study probes deeper and finds the earlier research to have serious weaknesses.
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