Value Added Modeling and Growth Modeling with Particular Appl... - 9781623967741

Value Added Modeling and Growth Modeling with Particular Application to Teacher and School EffectivenessAuthor(s): Robert W. Lissitz, Hong Jiao\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781623967741, 978-1623967741\nSynopsis\nModeling student growth has been a federal policy requirement under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In addition to tracking student growth, the latest Race To The Top (RTTP) federal education policy stipulates the evaluation of teacher effectiveness from the perspective of added value that teachers contribute to student learning and growth. Student growth modeling and teacher value-added modeling are complex. The complexity stems, in part, from issues due to non-random assignment of students into classes and schools, measurement error in students achievement scores that are utilized to evaluate the added value of teachers, multidimensionality of the measured construct across multiple grades,.