From the school's perspective, this dissection of growth creates disincentives for focusing on a small
subset of students whose performance hovers just below a single threshold.
This explanation would be plausible if a teacher's class were composed of a small subset of students who gained considerable skill during the prior year and a larger
subset of students whose previous gains were modest.
Not exact matches
For the
subset of teachers who can be linked to
student - level data, we consider the characteristics
of the
students whose teachers received a layoff notice under the actual system and in our simulation.