Rethinking value-added models in education : critical perspectives on tests and assessment-based accountability /
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley.
- First published 2014.
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- xix, 251 pages : 26 cm.
Socially engineering the road to utopia -- Value-added models (VAMs) and the human factor -- A VAMoramic view of the nation -- Highly questionable yet often unquestioned assumptions -- Assumptions used as rationales and justifications -- Test-based, statistical, and methodological assumptions -- Nontraditional concerns about traditional methodological notions -- Reliability and validity -- Bias and the random assignment of students into classrooms -- Alternatives, solutions, and conclusions.
9780415820110 (hardback) 9780415820127 (pbk.)
Educational accountability--United States. Educational indicators--United States. Educational tests and measurements--United States. Teachers--Rating of--Mathematical models.--United States