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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Polasky, Sarah; Holloway-Libell, Jessica – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016
One urban district in the state of Arizona sought to use an alternative achievement test (i.e., the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress for Primary Grades (MAP)) to include more value-added ineligible teachers in the districts' growth and merit pay system. The goal was to allow for its K-2 teachers to be more…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Urban Areas
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Hicken, Samuel – Urban Review, 1992
Studies effectiveness of the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) in predicting subsequent grades for 9,064 Arizona applicants to teacher education programs in 1985 to 1989 and 100 students with subsequent performance data. The PPST has blocked minority students from teacher preparation programs, although correlations between score and performance…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Education Majors, Grades (Scholastic)
Elliot, Jack; Zimmerman, Augusta – 2002
A study using the static-group research design was performed comparing the raw standardized Stanford 9 high stakes test scores of career and technical education (CTE) students with those of other students while controlling for extraneous variables such as learning styles, special populations, gender, race, and ethnicity. Two thousand high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis