Brown Bag Lecture

Value-Added Indicators

Presented by Robert H. Meyer

 Wednesday, September 13, 2000
12:00-1:00 PM 
Room 259, Educational Sciences Building

Robert Meyer will present on value-added indicators with illustrations using data from schools in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Educational outcome indicators frequently are used to measure the performance of schools, programs, and policies. Reliance on such indicators is largely the result of a growing demand to hold these entities accountable for their performance, defined in terms of outcomes such as standardized test scores in mathematics, science and reading, rather than inputs such as teacher qualification, class size, or the quality of lab facilities. Meyer will discuss the weaknesses of the most commonly used educational outcome indicators--average and median test scores and proficiency-level indicators--and the advantages of value-added indicators. 


Robert H. Meyer is a Senior Scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Lecturer and Research Associate at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.