This report reviews over 200 pieces of research to identify the elements of teaching with the
strongest evidence of improving attainment. It finds some common practices can be harmful …

This article reviews the literature on teacher value-added. Although value-added models
have been used to measure the contributions of numerous inputs to educational production …

Research has focused predominantly on how teachers affect students' achievement on
standardized tests despite evidence that a broad range of attitudes and behaviors are …

Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores (value-added) a good measure of their
quality? One reason this question has sparked debate is disagreement about whether value …

Improving teacher evaluation is one of the most pressing but also contested areas of
educational policy. Value-added measures have received much of the attention in new …

Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores (“value-added”) a good measure of their
quality? This question has sparked debate largely because of disagreement about (1) …

The precise method of attributing differences in classroom achievement to teachers is the
subject of considerable discussion and analysis. We begin by briefly outlining the general …

Some education policymakers focus on bringing down pupil–teacher ratios. Others argue
that resources will have limited impact without systematic reforms to education governance …

Expansion of the use of student test score data to measure teacher performance has fueled
recent policy interest in using those data to measure the effects of school administrators as …

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to
teachers within schools with a rule that is as good as random. We collected data on children …