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.

Jan 29, 2011 · Grade level. – Covers students with two consecutive years of test scores over a specific grade progression. – Grade progressions: 3-4, 4-5, ...

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 ...

Advocates say it's better to track specific students' gains over time than the current system, which holds schools accountable for how many students at a single ...

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

Feb 1, 2010 · This allows us in a single report to view value added performance for consecutive intervals of time and thereby begin to identify trends.

Jason Song: The Los Angeles Unified School District has declined to release to The Times the names of teachers and their scores indicating their effectiveness ...

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 ...

Education News looks at the first results of N.J.'s value-added teacher evaluations, which “found that overall, 23.4% of teachers received “highly effective ...