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 ...

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

In practice, value added focuses on the improvement of students from one year to the next on an annual state examination or other periodic assessment. The Value ...

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 · Summary. Much more on value added assessment here. Madison's value added assessment program is based on the oft-criticized wkce. Posted by Jim ...

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.

Dec 14, 2004 · "Value-added assessment has also become a political irritant because some school boards and superintendents want to pay teachers based on how ...

Tennessee's Value Added Assessment System has been in place since 1995. It enables users to estimate the success of teachers, schools, and districts in ...

... assessment also may be used formatively. A purely formative assessment may allow greater room to assess the full range of mathematical abilities than an ...