IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/mpr/mprres/11cf6795ac3842b996637b08e56d3f06.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, 2012-13 School Year

Author

Listed:
  • Dana Rotz
  • Matthew Johnson
  • Brian Gill

Abstract

At the request of Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, Mathematica has developed value-added models that aim to estimate the contributions of individual teachers and schools to the achievement of their students.

Suggested Citation

  • Dana Rotz & Matthew Johnson & Brian Gill, "undated". "Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, 2012-13 School Year," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 11cf6795ac3842b996637b08e, Mathematica Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:mpr:mprres:11cf6795ac3842b996637b08e56d3f06
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mathematica.org/-/media/publications/pdfs/education/vam_pittsburgh.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jesse Rothstein, 2010. "Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 125(1), pages 175-214.
    2. Thomas J. Kane & Douglas O. Staiger, 2008. "Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation," NBER Working Papers 14607, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Thomas J. Kane & Douglas O. Staiger, 2002. "The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 16(4), pages 91-114, Fall.
    4. Daniel F. McCaffrey & Tim R. Sass & J. R. Lockwood & Kata Mihaly, 2009. "The Intertemporal Variability of Teacher Effect Estimates," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 4(4), pages 572-606, October.
    5. Eric Isenberg & Heinrich Hock, "undated". "Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in DC, 2011-2012 School Year," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 429d075abf05480eb0fbb4831, Mathematica Policy Research.
    6. repec:mpr:mprres:7333 is not listed on IDEAS
    7. Daniel Aaronson & Lisa Barrow & William Sander, 2007. "Teachers and Student Achievement in the Chicago Public High Schools," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 25(1), pages 95-135.
    8. Heinrich Hock & Eric Isenberg, "undated". "Methods for Accounting for Co-Teaching in Value-Added Models," Mathematica Policy Research Reports e53ebf9f792e48dca345a4bba, Mathematica Policy Research.
    9. Alexandra Resch & Eric Isenberg, "undated". "How Do Test Scores at the Floor and Ceiling Affect Value-Added Estimates?," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 80fbbeb5dd504dbab6c51e4d8, Mathematica Policy Research.
    10. Cory Koedel & Julian Betts, 2010. "Value Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 5(1), pages 54-81, January.
    11. repec:mpr:mprres:7330 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. repec:mpr:mprres:7439 is not listed on IDEAS
    13. Eric Isenberg & Elias Walsh, "undated". "Accounting for Co-Teaching: A Guide for Policymakers and Developers of Value-Added Models," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 5ffcec12789c45669e27d8cf2, Mathematica Policy Research.
    14. Meyer, Robert H., 1997. "Value-added indicators of school performance: A primer," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 16(3), pages 283-301, June.
    15. Peter Z. Schochet & Hanley S. Chiang, "undated". "Error Rates in Measuring Teacher and School Performance Based on Student Test Score Gains," Mathematica Policy Research Reports d415285f980b4d64b7e75f40b, Mathematica Policy Research.
    16. repec:mpr:mprres:6721 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. repec:mpr:mprres:8134 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Stephen Lipscomb & Brian Gill & Kevin Booker & Matthew Johnson, "undated". "Estimating Teacher and School Effectiveness in Pittsburgh: Value-Added Modeling and Results," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 600966d791a14d6497505b870, Mathematica Policy Research.
    3. repec:mpr:mprres:7644 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Stacy, Brian & Guarino, Cassandra & Wooldridge, Jeffrey, 2018. "Does the precision and stability of value-added estimates of teacher performance depend on the types of students they serve?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 50-74.
    5. Matthew Johnson & Stephen Lipscomb & Brian Gill & Kevin Booker & Julie Bruch, "undated". "Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 1a314c80952d49a1a52924599, Mathematica Policy Research.
    6. Eric Isenberg & Heinrich Hock, 2010. "Measuring School and Teacher Value Added for IMPACT and TEAM in DC Public Schools," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 42dd1ff2d7eb46948f98d8e9c, Mathematica Policy Research.
    7. Eric Isenberg & Heinrich Hock, "undated". "Measuring School and Teacher Value Added in DC, 2011-2012 School Year," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 429d075abf05480eb0fbb4831, Mathematica Policy Research.
    8. Dan Goldhaber & Roddy Theobald, 2013. "Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 8(4), pages 494-527, October.
    9. Allison Atteberry & Susanna Loeb & James Wyckoff, 2013. "Do First Impressions Matter? Improvement in Early Career Teacher Effectiveness," NBER Working Papers 19096, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. repec:mpr:mprres:8135 is not listed on IDEAS
    11. Koedel, Cory & Mihaly, Kata & Rockoff, Jonah E., 2015. "Value-added modeling: A review," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 180-195.
    12. Sean Corcoran & Dan Goldhaber, 2013. "Value Added and Its Uses: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 8(3), pages 418-434, July.
    13. Mariesa Herrmann & Elias Walsh & Eric Isenberg & Alexandra Resch, 2013. "Shrinkage of Value-Added Estimates and Characteristics of Students with Hard-to-Predict Achievement Levels," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 2b140369be0242ac83eeb5b0a, Mathematica Policy Research.
    14. Dan Goldhaber & Michael Hansen, 2013. "Is it Just a Bad Class? Assessing the Long-term Stability of Estimated Teacher Performance," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 80(319), pages 589-612, July.
    15. Goldhaber, Dan & Cowan, James & Walch, Joe, 2013. "Is a good elementary teacher always good? Assessing teacher performance estimates across subjects," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 216-228.
    16. Peter Z. Schochet & Hanley S. Chiang, 2013. "What Are Error Rates for Classifying Teacher and School Performance Using Value-Added Models?," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 38(2), pages 142-171, April.
    17. Roberto V. Penaloza & Mark Berends, 2022. "The Mechanics of Treatment-effect Estimate Bias for Nonexperimental Data," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 51(1), pages 165-202, February.
    18. Stephen Lipscomb & Bing-ru Teh & Brian Gill & Hanley Chiang & Antoniya Owens, "undated". "Teacher and Principal Value-Added: Research Findings and Implementation Practices," Mathematica Policy Research Reports b024faae6179407da5b887263, Mathematica Policy Research.
    19. repec:mpr:mprres:7019 is not listed on IDEAS
    20. Koedel Cory & Leatherman Rebecca & Parsons Eric, 2012. "Test Measurement Error and Inference from Value-Added Models," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 12(1), pages 1-37, November.
    21. Koedel, Cory, 2009. "An empirical analysis of teacher spillover effects in secondary school," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 28(6), pages 682-692, December.
    22. Stephen Lipscomb & Hanley Chiang & Brian Gill, "undated". "Value-Added Estimates for Phase 1 of the Pennsylvania Teacher and Principal Evaluation Pilot," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 88151979a8a6469582f1bce32, Mathematica Policy Research.
    23. Azam, Mehtabul & Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi, 2015. "Assessing teacher quality in India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 74-83.
    24. Brian Gill & Julie Bruch & Kevin Booker, 2013. "Using Alternative Student Growth Measures for Evaluating Teacher Performance: What the Literature Says," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 85b7a88ce0cf4597a7efd7a21, Mathematica Policy Research.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    VAM; Value-Added Models; Pittsburgh Public Schools; Education;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mpr:mprres:11cf6795ac3842b996637b08e56d3f06. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joanne Pfleiderer or Cindy George (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/mathius.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.