CLEVELAND, Ohio -- How is value-added calculated? The goal is to find whether a student made a year's worth of academic growth in a school year, but there are many different methods you could use.

Academic tracking in secondary education appears to confound an increasingly common method for gauging differences in teacher quality, according to two recently released studies. Failing to account ...

Guest post by John Thompson. As more and more schools implement various forms of Value-Added method (VAM) evaluation systems, we are learning some disturbing things about how reliable these methods ...

In Houston, school district officials introduced a test score-based evaluation system to determine teacher bonuses, then — in the face of massive protests — jettisoned the formula after one year to ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The controversial new method of evaluating teachers and schools - called "value-added" - does not appear to affect property values, finds research by economists at Michigan ...

The purpose of the workshop was to scan the research on value-added methods to identify their strengths and limitations, which can inform policy makers’ decisions about whether and how to proceed with ...