CLEVELAND, Ohio -- How is value-added calculated? The goal is to find whether a student made a year's worth of academic growth in a school year, but there are many different methods you could use.

In Houston, school district officials introduced a test score-based evaluation system to determine teacher bonuses, then — in the face of massive protests — jettisoned the formula after one year to ...

The concept sounds appealing: Measure the effectiveness of schools and teachers based on the amount of academic progress their students make from one year to the next. Often known as “value added” ...

Academic tracking in secondary education appears to confound an increasingly common method for gauging differences in teacher quality, according to two recently released studies. Failing to account ...

How good is one teacher compared with another? A growing number of school districts have adopted a system called value-added modeling to answer that question, provoking battles from Washington to Los ...

A new Ball State University study measures school district success by comparing performance to demographic predictions. The study found that poverty was the primary factor correlating with ...

The purpose of the workshop was to scan the research on value-added methods to identify their strengths and limitations, which can inform policy makers’ decisions about whether and how to proceed with ...

For families with kids, the most important part of choosing a neighborhood is usually the quality of local schools. In a new Ball State University study (see https ...