In a statement, the teachers union also emphasized that the agreement rejected the use of the district's method of measuring student academic progress for individual instructors. (articles.latimes.com)
Those who say tenure should be based on student academic progress increased from 49 percent to 55 percent between 2010 and 2011. (educationnext.org)
This statistical methodology introduced a new paradigm for predicting student academic progress and comparing the prediction to the contribution of individual teachers (or value added) as measured by student gain scores. (educationnext.org)