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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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206
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Type:
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Roundtables
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 1, 2011 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Social Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #300559 |
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Title:
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Can Statisticians Add Value to Teacher Value-Added?
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Author(s):
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Daniel F. McCaffrey*+
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Companies:
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RAND Corporation
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Address:
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4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA, ,
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Keywords:
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mixed models ;
longitudinal data
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Abstract:
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Measuring teachers' performance using "value-added" estimated from their students' longitudinal achievement test score data is the center of education policy and controversy. It is the centerpiece of the $4 billion US Department of Education Race to the Top Grant Program and a $500 million study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a part of growing number of state and school district accountability programs, and the source of controversy in Los Angeles and New York where local newspapers reported or went to court for the right to report individual teacher value added. What role are statisticians playing in the estimation of value-added? What are the key statistical issues in the estimation of value-added? And what role can our profession play in the coming years to make the data most useful for improving the education of our country's children?
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