Estimating Teacher and School Effectiveness in Pittsburgh : Value-Added Modeling and Results. Final Report / Stephen Lipscomb, Brian Gill and Kevin Booker.

At the request of Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers (PFT), Mathematica is developing value-added models (VAMs) that aim to estimate the contributions of individual teachers, teams of teachers, and schools to the achievement growth of their students. The analys...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Lipscomb, Stephen, Gill, Brian (Author), Booker, Kevin (Author), Johnson, Matthew (Author)
Corporate Author:	Mathematica Policy Research, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2010.
Subjects:	Teacher Effectiveness. School Effectiveness. Value Added Models. Public Schools. Urban Schools. Computation. Academic Achievement. Curriculum Based Assessment. Reading Tests. Attendance. Educational Attainment. Aptitude Tests. High Schools. Elementary Secondary Education.