Research on economization processes is increasingly taking seriously the social and
material processes through which various policy domains are transformed into economic …

Few physical educators engage in formal assessment of student learning outcomes. Recent
trends in high-stakes teacher evaluation make formal assessment of learning …

Value-added models (VAMs) are being used in education to link the contribution of
individual teachers and schools to students' learning. The use of VAMs has been …

One urban district in the state of Arizona sought to use an alternative achievement test (ie,
the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress for Primary …

In this chapter the authors argue that it is far from simple to use value-added models (VAM)
to control the quality of education, which a number of countries have opted for and others …

Over the past 20 years in the United States (US), teachers have seen a marked shift in how
teacher evaluation policies govern the evaluation of their performance. Spurred by federal …

This study introduces the notion of an “expertise gap,” a mismatch between researcher
expertise and research content. I show that these gaps can exist and warrant our attention in …