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1 Assessing Teachers with Value- Added Models (VAMs) Erik Ruzek October 14, 2010 UCI Department of Education, Chair’s Advisory Board Presentation

2 Bringing Attention to Teachers

3 What are Value Added-Models (VAMs)? They address the weaknesses of current methods by focusing on changes over time in achievement and answer the following types of questions: 1.How did the contribution of school or teacher “X” to student achievement gains compare with that of the average teacher? 2.How different are teachers across a school or district in terms of their students’ achievement gains?

4 What are Typical Teacher Effects? Teacher Effects on Student Achievement Change ▫What is the achievement gain associated with having an above average teacher? |-------------|-------------|-------------|--------------| -.5 Average.5 Teacher 1/5 sd increase in student achievement.

5 Problems with Current VAMs Technical 1.Complex 2.Continuing methodological debates about how best to estimate them. Conceptual 1.Non-random assignment of students to teachers is a real problem. 2.VAMs make no attempt to answer the question of how teachers influence student achievement. 3.Is achievement the only outcome we care about?

6 What about Teacher Effects on Student Motivation to Learn and Achieve? Mastery achievement goals ▫One of my main goals in math is to improve my skills. ▫My main goal in math is to learn as much as I can. ▫Really understanding my math work is important to me. Mastery motivation is related to: ▫Intrinsic motivation, increased effort, self-efficacy (related to achievement), task persistence, preference for challenge, self-regulated learning, employment of deep learning strategies

7 Student Motivation in Middle and High School Middle school is a time of declining student motivation that then flattens out in high school. Student achievement goals are malleable – they are susceptible to teaching differences. We know how teachers influence student goals, but we don’t know how much teachers differ in their ability to influence student goals.

8 Are Teacher Effects on Achievement a Good Proxy for Motivation? If so, we should find that teachers who boost achievement also boost motivation. ▫We did not find this to be true. What we found : ▫Teachers who boosted student mastery motivation also tended to boost student achievement, but to a much smaller degree.  Correlation of.25

9 Does Motivation Matter for Student Outcomes (a.k.a. My Next Project)? Need to establish that teacher influence on student motivation matters for important educational outcomes: ▫High school exit examinations ▫Taking advanced courses ▫High school graduation ▫College enrollment

10 Thank you.


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