The letter from assessment experts the N.Y. Regents ignored
Here’s the letter that 10 assessment experts sent to the New York State Board of Regents earlier this month urging it not to approve a system that links student standard test scores to the evaluations of teachers and principals.
The Regents ignored their evidence showing such “value-added” systems are unstable and prone to error — and approved it anyway. Starting in the fall, 40 percent of the evaluations of teachers and principals in New York public schools will based on student test scores.
May 15, 2011
To The New York State Board of Regents:
As researchers who have done extensive work in the area of testing and measurement, and the use of value-added methods of analysis, we write to express our concern about the decision pending before the