Research and Reports

On value-added modeling:

             Economic Policy Institute

http://epi.3cdn.net/b9667271ee6c154195_t9m6iij8k.pdf

              RAND

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR917.pdf

              Brookings Institute

http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2010/1117_evaluating_teachers.aspx

             Center for American Progress

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/12/student_teacher_eval.html

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/12/pdf/value_added.pdf

              Annenburg Institute of School Reform

http://www.annenberginstitute.org/pdf/valueAddedReport.pdf

On Evaluation Systems


             The New Teacher Project

http://www.tntp.org/index.php/publications/issue-analysis/view/teacher-evaluation-2.0/

          The Center for Teaching Quality  (A personal favorite)

http://www.teachingquality.org/tsp4p

            National Board Resource Center

http://accomplishedcaliforniateachers.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/act-a-quality-teacher-in-every-classroom.pdf

On Merit Pay

            National Center on Performance Incentives

http://www.performanceincentives.org/data/files/pages/POINT%20REPORT_9.21.10.pdf