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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

DC Schools Official Says District Will Use Value-Added Modeling In Evaluations

Meanwhile, in a posting on the Washington Post (5/10) "DC Schools Insider" blog, Bill Turque presents a partial transcript of an interview with "Jason Kamras, chief of human capital for DCPS and the principal architect of the IMPACT teacher evaluation system" about the potential use of value-added modeling in that program "holding teachers accountable for students reaching or exceeding predicted growth on standardized test scores." Kamras predicts that the number of teachers who are evaluated with such methodologies will rise in the coming years.

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