Re: [Phys-l] WHY VALUE ADDED TESTING IS A BUST WAS: Re: [PTSOS] Teachers' Test scores to be made public

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Only indirectly -- he uses it to measure the method;  tho different teachers may apply the methods differently.  I think the statisticians lump all the teachers using a specific method together, so the effectiveness of the teachers is "averaged" when compared w/ other methods.

bc waiting for J.C. to return from his estivation.

p.s. don't forget Hake, Halloun, Hestenes, et alii.

p.p.s. Yes.   

On 2010, Sep 01, , at 21:18, brian whatcott wrote:

>  I am probably paying insufficient attention.
> Is it proposed to measure student gain as a measure of teacher performance?
> Isn't this the sort of thing that John C has essentially been 
> advocating, for years n  years?
>
> Brian W