Value-Added Assessment in Wisconsin

Milwaukee

Since 2000, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) has been working with the Milwaukee Public Schools to use value-added to evaluate schools in the district.

Their value-added model calculates the average growth of the same groups of students in a school, controlling for variables such as prior academic achievement, ethnicity, gender, mobility, and economic status. Scores from reading, language arts, and mathematics WKCE/Terra Nova tests are analyzed.

Each school is then assigned a “beat the average” score comparing its gain with others schools in the district. Schools are categorized into one of four groups determined by schools' value added scores - whether the school is above (high value added) or below (low value added) the district average; and by “attainment” - whether they have a higher percentage (high attainment) or lower percentage (low attainment) of proficient students.

Links to important websites

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/

Wisconsin Center for Education Research, http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/

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