| | Kentucky's School Reform Efforts Bear Fruit
Schools successfully met student achievement goals in Kentucky's school-based performace award program by making considerable changes in curriculum and instruction.Supplemental Educational Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues
Market-based education reforms are sometimes promoted at a rate outpacing evidence of their effectiveness, according to UW-Madison education professor Patricia Burch.
The supplemental educational services (SES) provision of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act enjoys popularity, substantial support from the business community, and increased funding. In a recent study of SES programs in 30 states, Patricia Burch and colleagues asked: But how well do they work? Value-Added and Other Measures of Teacher Quality
School districts, individual schools, and education policies all contribute to student achievement. But it can be argued that the most important contributing factor is the quality of the teacher in the classroom. Evaluating teacher quality is complicated, yet it has become even more important with the testing and assessment focus of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Team Teaching Practices Affect Value-Added Measurements
Linking performance data of students to their teachers might seem like something that district data systems automatically and routinely do, yet in most cases doing so is a real a challenge. That’s because most school student information systems were not designed to account for team-teaching approaches. Value-Added Measurement: What It Is and Is Not
A value-added model for evaluation is simply a statistical formula that estimates the contribution of schools, classrooms, teachers, and other educational factors to student achievement. What makes value-added evaluation unique is that it also measures, and controls for, non-school sources of student achievement growth, including, for example, family education, social capital, and household income. Value-added models take into account that different schools serve very different populations of students. |
