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Direct linkAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – SAGE Open, 2020
The Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), the value-added model (VAM) sold by the international business analytics software company SAS Institute Inc., is advertised as offering "precise, reliable and unbiased results that go far beyond what other simplistic [value-added] models found in the market today can provide." In this…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Test Bias
Geiger, Tray J.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Holloway, Jessica – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
For this study, researchers critically reviewed documents pertaining to the highest profile of the 15 teacher evaluation lawsuits that occurred throughout the U.S. as pertaining to the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers. In New Mexico, teacher plaintiffs contested how they were being evaluated and held accountable using a homegrown…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Teacher Responsibility, Accountability, Value Added Models
Download full textAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Holloway-Libell, Jessica; Cirell, Anna Montana; Hays, Alice; Chapman, Kathryn – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2015
There is something incalculable about teacher expertise and whether it can be observed, detected, quantified, and as per current educational policies, used as an accountability tool to hold America's public school teachers accountable for that which they do (or do not do well). In this commentary, authors (all of whom are former public school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Expertise
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Collins, Clarin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
The SAS Educational Value-Added Assessment System (SAS[R] EVAAS[R]) is the most widely used value-added system in the country. It is also self-proclaimed as "the most robust and reliable" system available, with its greatest benefit to help educators improve their teaching practices. This study critically examined the effects of SAS[R] EVAAS[R] as…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Private Schools, Program Effectiveness
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Haladyna, Thomas – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2009
For over 30 years survey instruments have been used in colleges of higher education to measure instructional effectiveness. Extensive research has been conducted to determine which items best capture this construct. This research study was triggered by a college of education's enthusiastic but failed attempt to create a new and improved instructor…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, College Faculty, Educational Quality, Teacher Evaluation
