ABOUT WCER NEWS Events Cover Stories Research News International Research Press WHAT'S THE RESEARCH ON...? PROJECTS All Active Projects All Completed Projects PUBLICATIONS LECTURE SERIES PEOPLE Staff Directory Project Leaders ERG - EVALUATION RESOURCES GROUP RESOURCES Conference Rooms Equipment GRANT SERVICES GRADUATE TRAINING SERVICE UNITS Director's Office Business Office Technical Services Printing & Mail EMPLOYMENT CONTACT INFO MyWCER WORKSPACE LOGIN

VARC Blog Debuts

March 6 , 2006

The new VARC Blog, administered by Chris Thorn, supports the discussion of value-added analysis in education, including growth models of student learning and robust designs for program and policy evaluation. WCER’s Value-Added Research Center (VARC) intends to be at the forefront of scholarly work on the appropriate use of test results and to serve as a leader in advanced techniques of applying value-added analysis to robust evaluation models. The research team is engaged in a number of research and application projects that provide insights into various applications of robust evaluation designs. VARC is funded by a Longitudinal Data Systems grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.