Teacher Effects and Teacher Effectiveness: A Validity Investigation of the Tennessee Value Added Assessment System

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-298

  Kupermintz, Haggai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Learning gains; Student achievement; Teacher effectiveness; Teacher evaluation; TVAAS; Validity; Value added assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344685232     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/01623737025003287     Document Type: Review

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