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Direct linkOlson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
This article reports how "value-added" measures that track the "value" that schools add to individual students' learning over time are increasingly popular with educators and policymakers. Some view the methods as an antidote to accountability systems that focus solely on getting children to a specified achievement level on a state test,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement, Accountability, Outcomes of Education
