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Rodriguez, Awilda; Hernandez-Hamed, Esmeralda – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Each year, large shares of students who could do well in Advanced Placement courses and exams--known as AP potential students-- do not participate, particularly students of color and low-income students. There are a number of prevailing reasons, both structural (schools do not offer the courses or teachers do no accurately…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students, Achievement Gap
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Yeh, Stuart S. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Value-added modeling (VAM) has been used to rank teachers and assess teacher and school quality. The apparent relationship between value-added teacher rankings and gains in student performance provide a foundation for the view that the contribution of teachers to student performance is the largest factor influencing student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement