A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysis
Value-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This powerful tool also reveals tangible strategies for improving instruction. Built around the work of Battelle for Kids, this book provides a field-tested continuous improvement model for using value-added information to increase student learning. The five-step process shows how to:
Each chapter includes case studies, real-life examples, action steps, and reflective questions in addition to numerous tools, samples, and protocols for implementing the model. By focusing on specific professional practices associated with gains in student performance, conversations shift from blame to analysis, from defensiveness to professional learning, and from micromanagement to inquiry—a fresh perspective that results in student success!
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Step I: What Is Value-Added Analysis?
2. Step I: Jump into Value-Added Analysis
3. Step I: The Framework for Systemic Improvement
4. Step II: Assess District-Level Value-Added Reports to Determine Strengths and Challenges
5. Step II: Assess Building-Level Value-Added Reports to Determine Strengths and Challenges
6. Step II: Assess Teacher-Level Value-Added Reports to Determine Strengths and Challenges
7. Steps III and IV: Identify Root Causes and Produce an Improvement Plan
8. Step V: Take Action, Monitor, and Adjust
Afterword
Glossary
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Kate Kennedy develops and leads professional development workshops for educators on how to use value-added analysis, formative assessment, and other research-based strategies and tools for school improvement. A Director at Battelle for Kids in Columbus, Ohio, she also develops online learning resources to support educators’ efforts to apply these strategies to accelerate student progress. Kate has traveled from Ohio to Hong Kong, and many interesting places in between, to help educators help kids.Before joining the staff at Battelle for Kids, Kate studied education leadership at Teachers College in New York City and was an ESL, English Language Arts, and Social Studies teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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