Sentences with phrase «true measures of teacher effectiveness»

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Even if we conclude that value - added measures are not confounded, we will never know the true effectiveness of a teacher working in all different classroom situations.

First, assuming readily available measures of teacher effectiveness actually measure true teacher effectiveness, an assumption to which we return below, the differences between seniority and effectiveness - based layoffs are larger and more persistent than we anticipated.

Kane's research was, of course, used to support the claim that bad teachers are causing the disparities that he cited, regardless of the fact the inverse could be also, equally, or even more true — that the value - added measures used to measure teacher effectiveness in these schools are biased by the very nature of the students in these schools that are contributing their low test scores to such estimates.