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Value-Added Indicators: A Powerful Tool for Evaluating Science and Mathematics Programs and Policies.
Meyer, Robert H.
NISE Brief, v3 n3 Jun 2000
This issue of NISE Brief discusses the weakness of the most commonly used educational outcome indicators--average and median test scores and proficiency-level indicators--and the advantages of value-added indicators. It offers a critique of the average test score as a measure of school and program performance as an example based on national data. Value-added indicators as data requirements are also discussed. (Contains 13 references.) (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Evaluation, Science Education, Scoring Formulas, Statistical Analysis
National Institute for Science Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1025 W. Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706. For full text: http://www.nise.org.
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Language: English
Sponsor: Wisconsin Univ., Madison.; National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.
Authoring Institution: National Inst. for Science Education, Madison, WI.
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