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Explaining Teaching Effectiveness Beyond Value-Added Models

Sun, April 10, 8:15 to 9:45am, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 158 B

Session Type: Symposium

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Value-added models of teaching effectiveness typically include possible influencing factors in estimating the impact of a teacher’s efforts on student learning. Yet, although it seems that VAMs are the most precise measure that research can currently provide, there is ample criticism that even the most sophisticated modelling approach cannot account for the complexity of interdependencies between classroom interactions, teacher and student characteristics, and features of achievement tests. This symposium brings together research papers that focus on different aspects of critique of VAMs. The four original papers each study one aspect of teaching effectiveness beyond value-added models: the subject dependency of teachers’ actions, classroom composition features, the contribution of school, classroom and individual factors, and achievement test characteristics.

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