False Performance Gains: A Critique of Successive Cohort Indicators
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False Performance Gains: A Critique of Successive Cohort Indicators

Working Paper 2
Published: Dec 30, 2011
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research
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Steven M. Glazerman

Liz Potamites

There are many ways to use student test scores to evaluate schools. This paper defines and examines different estimators including regression-based value-added indicators, average gains, and successive cohort differences in achievement levels. The paper helps assess which methods provide useful information for school accountability and why.

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