TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational Accountability, Value-Added Modeling, and the Origin of the Achievement Gap
AU - Yeh, Stuart S.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Empirical results are consistent with the hypothesis that socioeconomic factors contribute to initial disparities in performance that are perpetuated by demoralizing grading, testing, and grouping practices throughout the K-12 years. The hypothesis may explain why the achievement gap increases after children enter the school system, why Black students lose ground within schools and within classrooms, why value-added modeling (VAM) estimates of teacher performance are unstable from year to year, why Rothstein found that VAM estimates of teacher performance predict prior student performance, why VAM estimates of teacher performance predict gains in student achievement, and why persistent sorting may account for the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) results despite random assignment of class rosters to teachers.
AB - Empirical results are consistent with the hypothesis that socioeconomic factors contribute to initial disparities in performance that are perpetuated by demoralizing grading, testing, and grouping practices throughout the K-12 years. The hypothesis may explain why the achievement gap increases after children enter the school system, why Black students lose ground within schools and within classrooms, why value-added modeling (VAM) estimates of teacher performance are unstable from year to year, why Rothstein found that VAM estimates of teacher performance predict prior student performance, why VAM estimates of teacher performance predict gains in student achievement, and why persistent sorting may account for the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) results despite random assignment of class rosters to teachers.
KW - at-risk students
KW - school accountability
KW - student achievement
KW - teacher assessment
KW - value-added modeling
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U2 - 10.1177/0013124519896823
DO - 10.1177/0013124519896823
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077472321
SN - 0013-1245
VL - 52
SP - 1181
EP - 1203
JO - Education and Urban Society
JF - Education and Urban Society
IS - 8
ER -