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Direct linkAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Geiger, Tray – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Houston's experience with the Educational Value-Added Assessment System (R) (EVAAS) raises questions that other districts should consider before buying the software and using it for high-stakes decisions. Researchers found that teachers in Houston, all of whom were under the EVAAS gun, but who taught relatively more racial minority students,…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Districts, Computer Software, Educational Technology
When Process Becomes Policy: The Paradox of Kentucky State Reform for Exemplary Teachers of Writing.
Wolf, Shelby A.; McIver, Monette C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
An exemplary teacher who perfected portfolio writing techniques with his seventh-graders fears that abandoning KIRIS (Kentucky Instructional Results Information System) for a more conventional testing system will discourage students' riskier ventures. Talented teachers must balance teaching writing as an artistic process with meeting concrete…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Educational Policy, English Teachers, Grade 7
