Value Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation

By C. Koedel, Julia Betts. Education Finance and Policy, 2009

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Incentives and their dynamics in public sector performance management systems (2010, methodology): “…the random component and to reduce the noise in the measure of current effort, an approach that is currently being used in many school districts to measure the value-added of an additional year of schooling on student achievement (Harris and Sass, 2006; Koedel and Betts, 2008; Rothstein, J., 2008).”
What a difference a day makes: Estimating daily learning gains during kindergarten and first grade using a natural experiment (2011, background): “Koedel and Betts (2008) argue that a test score distribution’s skewness is”
Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop (2010, methodology): “Sean Reardon pointed out a similar situation based on the use of a value-added model in San Diego (Koedel and Betts, 2009).”
Assessing Rothstein's critique of teacher value‐added models (2012, background): “3See, for example, Kane and Staiger (2002), Amrein-Beardsley (2008), Harris and Sass (2011), Martineau (2006), Koedel and Betts (2010b), and Koretz (2002).”