By: randalledreview
Bruce, Nice explanation of the flaws of VAMs and SGPs. What would you recommend be used in their place?
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Vance, Good to hear from you. One of my answers to your question is embedded in a footnote to the post. I continue to believe that we might find some useful information in teacher effect estimates –...
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Dr. Baker, Great article! I have tried to share your previous articles on this topic with Teachers and Administrators but, to be quite honest, the math got in the way! This article pretty much sums up...
View ArticleBy: Christine Marriott
I confess to doing something like SGP in a medium-sized urban district (I work in the assessment department). I calculated mean growth for students taking the same test sequence and with similar...
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Indeed discussing the data to determine if they provide any meaning for classroom practice is a potentially reasonable exercise. Further, the exercise is open to the possibility that the data don’t...
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