Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

Rethinking Value-Added Models in Education (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment-Based Accountability

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Value-added models (VAMs) are methods meant to measure the value a teacher or school adds to student learning from one year to the next. To date, however, there is very little evidence to support their trustworthiness. The mission of this book is to shed light on this issue thereby improving states' Race-to-the-Top (RttT) reform proposals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136702846
• Artikelnr.: 40831605

Autorenporträt

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor in Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She is one of the top Edu-Scholars in the nation, honored for being an academic who is contributing substantially to public debates about the nation's educational system. She is also creator and host of the blog: VAMboozled! (vamboozled.com).

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Socially Engineering the Road to Utopia
Chapter 2: Value-Added Models (VAMs) and the Human Factor
Chapter 3: A VAMoramic View of the Nation
Section II: Highly Questionable Yet Often Unquestioned Assumptions
Chapter 4: Assumptions Used as Rationales and Justifications
Chapter 5: Test-Based, Statistical, and Methodological Assumptions
Section III: Nontraditional Concerns about Traditional Methodological
Notions
Chapter 6: Reliability and Validity
Chapter 7: Bias and the Random Assignment of Students into Classrooms
Section IV: Alternatives, Solutions, and Conclusions
Chapter 8: Alternatives, Solutions, and Conclusions