The U.S. Department of Education should support ongoing research to establish the validity and reliability of comprehensive teacher evaluation programs, further examine the efficacy of value added models of teacher evaluation, and support adequate training and professional development of evaluators to insure fidelity of implementation of evaluation models found to be effective in improving teaching and learning. (nassp.org)
And, sure enough, E4E's «declaration» includes language endorsing teacher assessments using value added modeling of standardized test scores, a method which is only slightly more reliable than throwing darts randomly at a wall. (danielskatz.net)
This overwhelming evidence prompted Tennessee's State Board of Education, one of the first adopters of the so - called Value Added Model («VAM»), to now abandon the use of VAM in any decisions to license or fire teachers. (jonathanpelto.com)