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Direct linkAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
Until recently, legal challenges to using value-added models (VAMs) throughout the United States (US) for high-stakes teacher evaluative decisions (e.g., merit pay, tenure, and termination) were unsuccessful, especially in the state of Florida. Hence, prior and still, multiple teachers throughout Florida have been terminated or involuntarily…
Descriptors: Teacher Dismissal, Case Studies, Court Litigation, Value Added Models
Paige, Mark A.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Educational Researcher, 2020
Until recently, legal challenges to the use of value-added models (VAMs) in evaluation and teacher employment decisions in federal court had been unsuccessful. However, in May 2017 a federal court in Texas ruled that plaintiff-teachers established a viable federal constitutional claim to challenge the use of VAMs as a means for their termination…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Employment, Court Litigation
Download full textAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2019
In "Houston Federation of Teachers (Plaintiff) v. Houston Independent School District (Defendant)," plaintiffs contested how teachers were being evaluated using a value-added model (VAM) as part of the districts' teacher accountability system. The VAM at issue was the Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), with potential…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Court Litigation
