Lynn Welch: In the two years Madison has collected and shared value-added numbers, it has seen some patterns emerging in elementary school math learning.

The value added model uses what data are available about students--past test scores and student demographics in particular--to control for prior student ...

In theory, this allows us to judge teachers in low- and high-income schools fairly, instead of declaring, as we tend to do, that the teachers in rich ...

A large-scale, summative assessment such as the WKCE is not designed to provide diagnostic information about individual students. Those assessments are best ...

Jan 31, 2011 · Value added is the use of statistical technique to identify the effects of schooling on measured student performance. The value added model ...

Sep 12, 2011 · Value added is the use of statistical technique to isolate the contributions of schools to measured student knowledge from other influences ...

Art described VAA "as a method to track student growth longitudinally over time and to utilize that data to look at how successful we are at all levels of our ...

Jan 29, 2011 · Madison's value added assessment program is based on the oft-criticized wkce. Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 29, 2011 4:59 PM Subscribe to ...

Feb 1, 2010 · The "value added assessment" data is based on Wisconsin's oft-criticized WKCE. ... value added is an average school in terms of value added.