Includes updates and/or revisions. As value-added research designs gain in popularity and undergo increasing scrutiny, experts are beginning to wave cautionary flags about how best to make use of them ...

The purpose of the workshop was to scan the research on value-added methods to identify their strengths and limitations, which can inform policy makers’ decisions about whether and how to proceed with ...

With “value added” methods of measuring student-learning gains continuing to grow in popularity, policymakers and researchers met here last week to explore possible new ways of using the sometimes ...