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Callister Everson, Kimberlee; Feinauer, Erika; Sudweeks, Richard R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this article, the authors provide a methodological critique of the current standard of value-added modeling forwarded in educational policy contexts as a means of measuring teacher effectiveness. Conventional value-added estimates of teacher quality are attempts to determine to what degree a teacher would theoretically contribute, on average,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Accountability
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Caulkins, Jonathan P. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
In this article, the author discusses the use in policy analysis of models that incorporate uncertainty. He believes that all models should consider incorporating uncertainty, but that at the same time it is important to understand that sampling variability is not usually the dominant driver of uncertainty in policy analyses. He also argues that…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Models, Policy Analysis, Sampling