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The Value of Value-Added
DataHow value-added assessment can drive
school performance and improve community engagement Contact: Brett Pawlowski
Today’s Agenda
• What is value-added assessment?– Annual assessments: dominant but flawed– Value-added assessment: the missing piece
• How can value-added data drive school performance?
– What ECF has done in Tennessee
The Core Issue
• We all say we want great schools – but how do we define “great”?
• Two assessment models – two different answers– Annual Assessment: TCAP– Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
• TCAP: a measure of grade-level proficiency– Important information to have– Best-known, most widely reported– Considered the most important measure of
school quality by the public
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
• Issues with annual assessments– Correlation with poverty – 6 year span of
preparedness entering kindergarten (Kennewick)– Cut scores– Do not account for rate of growth
• Below grade level• Above grade level
• Annual assessments measure what the child brings to the school, not what the school brings to the child
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
Source: Tennessee State Board of Education – 2008 Master Plan
NAEP Mathematics, Grade 4 – Students At or Above Proficient Achievement Level
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
Source: Tennessee State Board of Education – 2008 Master Plan
NAEP Reading, Grade 4 – Students At or Above Proficient Achievement Level
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
Source: Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales, NCES, 2007
NAEP score equivalents of states’ proficiency standards for mathematics, grade 4: 2005
The Annual Assessment: TCAP
Source: Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales, NCES, 2007
NAEP score equivalents of states’ proficiency standards for reading, grade 4: 2005
The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS
• TVAAS: a measure of the rate of academic growth– Unique student IDs allow the capture and
tracking of individual student data– Progress measured against each individual
student’s past performance– Aggregated data shows the effectiveness of
teachers and schools
The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS
The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS• Benefits of Value-Added Assessment
– No correlation with poverty– Applicable to all students – special ed, ESL– Eliminates the “bubble effect”– Demonstrates the rate of growth– Identifies problems before it’s too late
• Value-added assessments show what the school brings to the child
The Value-Added Assessment: TVAAS
The Ideal: TCAP and TVAAS Combined
Applications of Value-Added Data
• Challenges– Virtually unknown among the public– Can be hard to grasp– Can be hard to interpret– Goes against preconceptions
• The Tennessee Project - ECF– Awareness– Access– Applications
Applications of Value-Added Data
Applications of Value-Added DataValue-Added Achievement Awards
Applications of Value-Added Data
Applications of Value-Added Data
Applications of Value-Added Data
• Community-level outreach– Sumner County– Hardin County– Washington County– Davidson County
