This study assessed the extent to which four principal performance measures based on student test scores—average achievement, school value-added, adjusted average achievement, and adjusted school value-added—accurately reflect principals' contributions to student achievement in future years. Average achievement used information on students' end-of-year achievement without taking into account the students' past achievement; school value-added accounted for students' own past achievement by measuring their growth; and adjusted average achievement and adjusted school value-added credited principals if their schools' average achievement and value-added, respectively, exceeded predictions based on the schools' past performance on those same measures. Read more...
2 novembre 2016
Can student test scores provide useful measures of school principals' performance?
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