The Ins and Outs of Value-Added Measures in Education: What Research Says

Friday November 21, 2008
8:00am - 2:30pm
The Urban Institute

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2008 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Welcome and Purpose
Jane Hannaway

Panel I
Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Credentials: Policy Implications
Helen Ladd


Using Value-Added-to-Student-Learning Measures to Improve Teacher Policy
Susanna Loeb

Steven Rivkin (Discussant)

Questions for Panel I


Panel II
The Stability of Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality and Implications for 
Teacher Compensation Policy
Tim Sass

Is It Just a Bad Class? Assessing the Potential of Using Value-Added Estimates 
of Teacher Job Performance for Making Tenure Decisions
Dan Goldhaber

Using VA Measures for Promotion, Compensation, and Training: Pros and Cons
Charles Clotfelter (Discussant)

Questions for Panel II

Presentation
The Texas FERPA Story
Dan O'Brien


Panel III
Do Disadvantaged Urban Schools Lose Their Best Teachers?
Eric Hanushek

Measuring Effect Sizes: the Effect of Measurement Error
Hamp Lankford

David Figlio (Discussant)

Questions for Panel III