Can value-added measures of teacher performance be trusted?

Education Finance and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 117-156

  Guarino, Cassandra M ^a   Reckase, Mark D ^b   Wooldridge, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84921028346     PISSN: 15573060     EISSN: 15573079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/EDFP_a_00153     Document Type: Article

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