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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2010. Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12820.
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Appendix A
Workshop Agenda and Participants

Thursday, November 13, 2008, Lecture Room

10:00

Welcome, Overview

Stuart Elliott, Director, Board on Testing and Assessment

Henry Braun, Committee Chair

10:15

Panel 1: Goals and Uses of VAM

Moderator: Jane Hannaway

(20 minutes per presenter/discussant)

 

  • Presentation by John Easton, Consortium on Chicago School Research

  • Presentation by Derek Briggs, University of Colorado

  • Discussion by Robert Gordon, Center for American Progress

  • Discussion by Brian Stecher, RAND Corporation

 

Focused Discussion

Discussion Leaders: Henry Braun, Lorrie Shepard

12:15

Working Lunch

Continued discussion of the goals and uses of VAM

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2010. Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12820.
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1:15

Panel 2: Measurement Issues with VAM

Moderator: Mark Wilson

  • Presentation by Mark Reckase, Michigan State University

  • Presentation by Bob Linn, University of Colorado

  • Discussion by Mike Kane, National Conference of Bar Examiners

  • Discussion by Mike Kolen, University of Iowa

 

Focused Discussion

Discussion Leaders: Kevin Lang, Scott Marion

3:30

Break

3:45

Focused Discussion

4:15

Synthesis of Main Messages

Discussion Leader: Henry Braun

4:45

Adjourn Workshop Day 1

Friday, November 14, 2008, Lecture Room

OPEN SESSION

8:30

Working Continental Breakfast

Prepare for discussion of analytic issues with VAM

9:00

Welcome, Overview of the Day

Panel 3: Analytic Issues with VAM

Moderator: Scott Marion

  • Presentation by Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University

  • Presentation by Dan McCaffrey and J.R. Lockwood, RAND Corporation

  • Discussion by Helen Ladd, Duke University

  • Discussion by Sean Reardon, Stanford University

10:20

Break

10:35

Focused Discussion

Discussion Leaders: Judy Singer, Mark Wilson

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2010. Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12820.
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11:45

Working Lunch

Prepare for discussion of consequences of using VAM

12:45

Panel 4: Short-Term and Long-Term Consequences

Moderator: Judy Singer

  • Presentation by Ashish Jha, Harvard School of Public Health

  • Presentation by Doug Willms, University of New Brunswick

  • Discussion by Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • Discussion by Ben Jensen, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

 

Focused Discussion

Discussion Leaders: Jane Hannaway, Lorrie Shepard

2:45

Break

3:00

Synthesis of Main Messages

Discussion Leader: Henry Braun

4:00

Adjourn Workshop

PARTICIPANTS

Rita Ahrens, Education Policy Studies

Joan Auchter, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Terri Baker, Center for Education, The National Academies

Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University

Henry Braun, Boston College

Derek Briggs, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tom Broitman, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Alice Cain, House Committee on Education and Labor

Duncan Chaplin, Mathematica Policy Research

Naomi Chudowsky, Center for Education, The National Academies

Pat DeVito, AE Concepts

Beverly Donohue, New Visions for Public Schools

Karen Douglas, International Reading Association

Kelly Duncan, Center for Education, The National Academies

John Q. Easton, Consortium on Chicago School Research

Stuart W. Elliott, Center for Education, The National Academies

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2010. Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12820.
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Maria Ferrão, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Rebecca Fitch, Office of Civil Rights

Shannon Fox, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Jianbin Fu, Educational Testing Service

Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Karen Golembeski, National Association for Learning Disabilities

Robert Gordon, Center for American Progress

Jeffrey Grigg, University of Wisconsin

Victoria Hammer, Department of Education

Jane Hannaway, Education Policy Center

Patricia Harvey, Center for Education, The National Academies

Lloyd Horwich, House Committee on Education and Labor

Lindsey Hunsicker, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Ben Jensen, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Ashish Jha, Harvard School of Public Health

Moshe Justman, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Laura Kaloi, National Association for Learning Disabilities

Michael Kane, National Conference of Bar Examiners

Judith Koenig, Center for Education, The National Academies

Michael J. Kolen, University of Iowa

Adam Korobow, LMI Research Institute

Helen F. Ladd, Duke University

Kevin Lang, Boston University

Sharon Lewis, House Committee on Education and Labor

Valerie Link, Educational Testing Service

Dane Linn, National Governors Association

Robert L. Linn, University of Colorado at Boulder

J.R. Lockwood, RAND Corporation

Angela Mannici, American Federation of Teachers

Scott Marion, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment

Daniel F. McCaffrey, RAND Corporation

Alexis Miller, LMI Research Institute

Raegen Miller, Center for American Progress

John Papay, Harvard University

Liz Potamites, Mathematica Policy Research

Ali Protik, Mathematica Policy Research

Sean Reardon, Stanford University

Mark D. Reckase, Michigan State University

Andre Rupp, University of Maryland

Sheila Schultz, HumRRO

Lorrie Shepard, University of Colorado at Boulder

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2010. Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12820.
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Judith Singer, Harvard University

Andrea Solarz, Director of Research Initiatives, National Academy of Education

Gerald Sroufe, American Educational Research Association

Brian Stecher, RAND Corporation

Justin Stone, American Federation of Teachers

David Wakelyn, National Governors Association

Greg White, Executive Director, National Academy of Education

J. Douglas Willms, University of New Brunswick

Mark Wilson, University of California, Berkeley

Laurie Wise, HumRRO

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Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted considerable attention because of their potential applicability for educational accountability, teacher pay-for-performance systems, school and teacher improvement, program evaluation, and research. Value-added methods involve complex statistical models applied to test data of varying quality. Accordingly, there are many technical challenges to ascertaining the degree to which the output of these models provides the desired estimates. Despite a substantial amount of research over the last decade and a half, overcoming these challenges has proven to be very difficult, and many questions remain unanswered--at a time when there is strong interest in implementing value-added models in a variety of settings.

The National Research Council and the National Academy of Education held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to help identify areas of emerging consensus and areas of disagreement regarding appropriate uses of value-added methods, in an effort to provide research-based guidance to policy makers who are facing decisions about whether to proceed in this direction.

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