This research synthesis examines how teacher effectiveness is currently measured. By
evaluating the research on teacher effectiveness and the different instruments used to …

Value-added estimates of teacher or school quality are increasingly used for both high-and
low-stakes accountability purposes, making understanding of their limitations critical. A …

Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the causal effect of income on
children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large …

Growing concerns over the inadequate achievement of US students have led to proposals to
reward good teachers and penalize (or fire) bad ones. The leading method for assessing …

In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J. Marzano and
teacher-effectiveness expert Michael D. Toth lay out a framework for the" next generation" of …

Value-added models have become popular in research and pay-for-performance plans.
While scholars have focused attention on some aspects of their validity (eg, scoring …

Although a substantial amount of research on school leadership has focused on what
principals may do to improve teaching and learning, little of this research has explored how …

Since passage of the of No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, academic researchers,
econometricians, and statisticians have been exploring various analytical methods of …

This paper constructs a statistical model of learning that suggests a systematic way of
measuring the persistence of treatment effects in education. This method is straightforward …

Using longitudinal data from a cohort of middle school students from a large school district,
we estimate separate “value‐added” teacher effects for two subscales of a mathematics …