From the Vault: Bracey Debates Sanders
All of us miss Jerry Bracey, especially those of us without his statistical chops when it comes to ripping back the curtain on today's Testing Wizard, Bill Sanders. Bracey's insights have been echoed by the National Academies of Science and other researchers, but, unfortunately, neither common sense nor science has as yet halted the multi-billion dollar bribery scheme advanced by the US ED that puts Sanders' half-baked notions on value-added modeling front and center for evaluating teachers using test score gains. The most prominent result so far is the Frankenstein monster (thank you, Sherm) created down in Nashville where, not coincidentally, Sanders first successfully sold his snake oil formula 20 years ago.
Here is an account of a debate that Bracey had with Bill Sanders in 2007, when Sanders was canvassing the country over-selling his proprietary statistical formulae for weighing the effects of teachers on test scores. It is vintage Bracey:
Here is an account of a debate that Bracey had with Bill Sanders in 2007, when Sanders was canvassing the country over-selling his proprietary statistical formulae for weighing the effects of teachers on test scores. It is vintage Bracey:
I knew in advance that things would be weird at this debate, symposium, whatever with William
