TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amrein-Beardsley,Audrey
TI  - Rethinking value-added models in education : critical perspectives on tests and assessment-based accountability
SN  - 9780415820110 (hardback)
U1  - 379.158 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Educational accountability
KW  - United States
KW  - Educational indicators
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - Teachers
KW  - Rating of
KW  - Mathematical models
N1  - 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
ER  -