Value-added model doesn’t find bad teachers, causes administrators to cheat

There’ve been a couple of articles in the past few days about teacher Value-Added Testing that have enraged me. If you haven’t been paying attention, the Value-Added Model (VAM) is now being used in a majority of the states (source: the Economist): But it gives out nearly random numbers, as gleaned from looking at the … Continue reading Value-added model doesn’t find bad teachers, causes administrators to cheat