TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Guarino, Cassandra M.
AU  - Reckase, Mark D.
AU  - Wooldridge, Jeffrey M.
        TI  - Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
        PY  - 2012/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6602
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6602
        AB  - We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method accurately captures true teacher effects in all scenarios, and the potential for misclassifying teachers as high- or low-performing can be substantial. Misspecifying dynamic relationships can exacerbate estimation problems. However, some estimators are more robust across scenarios and better suited to estimating teacher effects than others.
        KW  - value-added
KW  - teacher labor markets
KW  - education
KW  - student achievement
        ER  -