| Title: | Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says |
| Description: | States increasingly are interested in incorporating measures of student achievement growth in teacher evaluations. But the typical measure of student growth—progress on state assessments from one school year to the next—usually covers only reading and math and only in grades 4–8. Members of REL Mid-Atlantic's Teacher Evaluation Research Alliance wanted to understand more about the alternatives, and the REL produced this literature review in response. It examines the following two alternatives to state assessments: applying statistical value-added methods to outcomes other than student performance on standard state assessments and using student learning objectives (SLOs) developed by individual teachers. |
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| Cover Date: | September 2013 |
| Web Release: | September 24, 2013 |
| Publication #: | REL 2013002 |
| Center/Program: | REL |
| Associated Centers: | NCEE |
| Authors: | Brian Gill, Julie Bruch, and Kevin Booker: Mathematica Policy Research |
| Type of Product: | What's Known |
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