Tag Archives: value-added

I don't care about the original intent of value-added models

I’m tak­ing a break from end-of-semester mad­ness to offer this mini-rant, inspired by a pas­sage in this WP arti­cle, “Lead­ing math­e­mati­cian debunks value-added”: When value-added mod­els were first con­ceived, even their most ardent sup­port­ers cau­tioned about their use [Sanders 1995, abstract]. They were a new tool that allowed us to make sense of moun­tains of …

May 9, 2011 – 10:21 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, education, education policy, makes me stabby | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

on the non-normativity of value-added analysis

As you are likely to have heard by now, the Los Ange­les Times recently con­ducted and pub­lished a value-added analy­sis of some of the city’s ele­men­tary school teach­ers, using data that had been col­lected by the school dis­trict but never pre­vi­ously ana­lyzed in this way. There was a nice sum­mary of the value-added analy­sis and …

September 4, 2010 – 12:44 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, economics-ish, education, education policy, ethics, philosophy of education, teaching, value | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)