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Value-Added Assessment in Texas Dallas The Dallas School District began implementing its own value-added analysis based on a statistical model developed within the district. Parents, teachers, and community members make up an Accountability Task Force responsible for determining variables that need to be controlled to ensure that all students and schools are measured fairly. The HLM analysis controls for student level variables (i.e., gender, free-lunch status, and ethnicity/language proficiency) and school level variables (i.e., mobility, crowding, percentage minority, and SES). The district issues School Effectiveness Indices, which use student growth measures based on test scores, as the primary part of an index that also includes other measures, such as dropout rates. Test scores are also aggregated at the classroom level. Schools that achieve growth significantly beyond prediction and that fulfill other requirements are given cash awards for all staff.iLinks to important websites Texas Education Agency, http://tea.state.tx.us/ Dallas Independent School District, http://www.dallasisd.org 2004 Accountability System Overview, Texas Education Agency, Performance Reporting Division, May 10, 2004, http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2004/overview.ppt A Comprehensive System for the Evaluation of School, http://www.dallasisd.org/inside_disd/depts/inst_research/aer98ww1/aer98ww1.htm i Karen Helland, "Value-Added Assessment," School Directors' Handbook, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, 2001, p.4,5 back to map | ||||||||
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