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Teacher-Level Value-Added Models on Trial: Empirical and Pragmatic Issues of Concern across Five Court Cases
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Close, Kevin – Educational Policy, 2021
Ongoing or recently completed across the United States are a series of lawsuits via which teacher plaintiffs are contesting how they are being evaluated using value-added models (VAMs) as part of states'/districts' teacher accountability systems. To investigate the empirical and pragmatic matters addressed in court, researchers conducted a case…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Court Litigation, Teacher Evaluation, Reliability
All Value-Added Models (VAMs) Are Wrong, but Sometimes They May Be Useful
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Sloat, Edward; Holloway, Jessica – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2020
In this study, researchers compared the concordance of teacher-level effectiveness ratings derived via six common generalized value-added model (VAM) approaches including a (1) student growth percentile (SGP) model, (2) value-added linear regression model (VALRM), (3) value-added hierarchical linear model (VAHLM), (4) simple difference (gain)…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Evaluation
Student Perception Surveys for K-12 Teacher Evaluation in the United States: A Survey of Surveys
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Geiger, Tray; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Cogent Education, 2019
In this overview piece, we document the six student perception surveys (SPSs) currently available for state, district, and school consumption and use, given SPSs are increasingly becoming one of the more popular "multiple measures" being used to evaluate teacher qualities. We present descriptive information about each of these SPSs,…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Legislation
Administrators Gaming Test- and Observation-Based Teacher Evaluation Methods: To Conform To or Confront the System
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Geiger, Tray J.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2017
In this commentary, we discuss three types of data manipulations that can occur within teacher evaluation methods: artificial inflation, artificial deflation, and artificial conflation. These types of manipulation are more popularly known in the education profession as instances of Campbell's Law (1976), which states that the higher the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Data Analysis, Personnel Policy
Value-Added Models: What the Experts Say
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Pivovarova, Margarita; Geiger, Tray J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Being an expert involves explaining how things are supposed to work, and, perhaps more important, why things might not work as supposed. In this study, researchers surveyed scholars with expertise in value-added models (VAMs) to solicit their opinions about the uses and potential of VAMs for teacher-level accountability purposes (for example, in…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Scholarship, Expertise, Surveys
Validation of a Research-Based Student Survey of Instruction in a College of Education
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Haladyna, Thomas M.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
As a preparer of students for the profession of teaching, a college, school, or department of education in higher education has an expectation that instructors teach competently. In higher education, the student survey of instruction is one of the most important among other indicators of teaching effectiveness. This article presents a validation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Validity, Student Surveys, Guidance