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Project Title:
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Value-added Methodology for Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluations, and Educational Accountability: A Workshop
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PIN:
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CFEX-Q-07-01-A
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Major Unit:
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Testing and Assessment
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RSO:
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Elliott, Stuart
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Education
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Project Scope
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An ad hoc committee, under the auspices of the NRC's Center for Education, working in collaboration with the National Academy of Education (NAEd), will plan and conduct a workshop to present and discuss the emerging consensus in the technical community around the appropriate use of value-added methodology (VAM). Value-added methods are designed to isolate the unique contribution that a teacher or school makes to student achievement--as measured by test scores--separate from other influences such as the family. While there remain a number of difficult technical issues in realizing this promise of VAM, the substantial technical work conducted over the past several years gives a strong basis for providing policymakers with guidelines about policy applications of VAM that are reasonable given the current state of knowledge. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions that will focus on the motivation for using VAM, the tradeoffs of different VAM approaches, the prerequisites to applying VAM, and appropriate applications of VAM for instructional improvement, program evaluation, and accountability, along with examples of best practice. The event will be organized to engage leaders in education research and policy, including education scholars, legal experts, and education policy makers, statisticians and data systems experts at the national, state and local levels. Following the workshop, the committee will prepare a concise workshop report that will be disseminated to federal and state education officials, education scholars, advocacy groups and educators.
The project is sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The approximate start date for the project is August 1, 2007.
A report will be issued at the end of the project in approximately 18 months
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Project Duration:
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18 months
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