The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Value-Added Assessment
The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Value-Added Assessment
The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Value-Added Assessment
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Just in Case…• <strong>The</strong>re are potentially a lot <strong>of</strong> problems with usingVAM for policy purposes– Inadequate teacher quality measures <strong>and</strong> inappropriateuses <strong>of</strong> measures may create perverse incentives <strong>and</strong>certainly political strife• <strong>The</strong>re’s a fair amount that we don’t know aboutusing VAM• But, if I had to make a call– Just as “democracy is the worst form <strong>of</strong> governmentexcept all the others that have been tried”… VAM isn’tperfect, but it looks good relative to alternatives (at leastwith the current institutional structure/culture <strong>of</strong> publicschools)2
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