‘Value Added’ Pioneer Says Stinging Critique of Method Is Off-Base
The statistician who pioneered the use of “value added” research techniques for documenting students’ year-to-year academic progress is disputing a critique of his approach that was published recently in a prominent academic journal.
In the article , which appeared in the March issue of Educational Researcher , Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, an assistant professor at Arizona State University in Phoenix, takes aim at the Education Value-Added Assessment System, or EVAAS. The EVAAS is an offshoot of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System developed by William L. Sanders, which is widely credited with helping to launch nationwide interest in value-added approaches for measuring students’ academic progress.
Ms. Amrein-Beardsley contends that the EVAAS is opaque, is possibly flawed, and has not been subjected to enough external review to merit its widespread...
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