It also finds evidence that the value-added method couldn’t account for the non-random assignment of students to teachers, a problem researchers like Jesse Rothstein of Berkeley have also ...

Though the value-added method is often used to help educators improve their classroom teaching, it has also been a factor in deciding who receives bonuses, how much they are and even who gets fired.

All value-added methods aim to estimate a teacher’s effectiveness in raising students’ standardized test scores. But there is no universal agreement on which formula can most accurately ...

choicegraphx / Getty Images Trade in Value Added (TiVA) is a statistical method used to estimate the sources of value added when producing goods and services for export and import. The Trade in ...

Mr. Jackson found that, after controlling for such tracks, the value-added method was not able to determine top from bottom teachers in Algebra 1 with much precision. In English 1, the estimates ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The controversial new method of evaluating teachers and schools - called "value-added" - does not appear to affect property values, finds research by economists at Michigan ...