Measuring Teacher Quality with Value-added Modeling

Author :M. Marder
Publication :Kappa Delta Pi Record
Volume :48
Number :4
Pages :156-161
Year :2012

Value-added modeling carries the promise of measuring teacher quality automatically and objectively, and improving school systems at minimal cost. Yet value-added modelingcannot be carried out without value judgments; and if there are technical errors, they will have human cost.