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Download full textGuarino, Cassandra M.; Maxfield, Michelle; Reckase, Mark D.; Thompson, Paul; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2014
Empirical Bayes' (EB) estimation is a widely used procedure to calculate teacher value-added. It is primarily viewed as a way to make imprecise estimates more reliable. In this paper we review the theory of EB estimation and use simulated data to study its ability to properly rank teachers. We compare the performance of EB estimators with that of…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Effectiveness
Guarino, Cassandra M.; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2014
We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for choosing between random and fixed effects and a test for feedback (sometimes called a "falsification test"). We discuss theoretical…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality
Guarino, Cassandra M.; Reckase, Mark D.; Stacy, Brian W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2014
School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision between estimators of teacher quality is important. We examine estimates derived from student growth percentile measures and estimates derived from commonly…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra M.; Reckase, Mark D.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2013
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting…
Descriptors: Principals, Student Placement, Teacher Influence, Classification
Guarino, Cassandra M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2013
The push for accountability in public schooling has extended to the measurement of teacher performance, accelerated by federal efforts through Race to the Top. Currently, a large number of states and districts across the country are computing measures of teacher performance based on the standardized test scores of their students and using them in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Program Descriptions
Guarino, Cassandra M.; Reckase, Mark D.; Woolridge, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2012
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method accurately captures true teacher effects in all scenarios,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
