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VAMboozled!: Center on the Future of American Education, on America’s “New and Improved” Teacher Evaluation Systems

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 13, 2016

VAMboozled!: Five “Indisputable” Reasons Why VAMs are Good?

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 5, 2016

VAMboozled!: VAMs Are Never “Accurate, Reliable, and Valid”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 21, 2016

VAMboozled!: The Danielson Framework: Evidence of Un/Warranted Use

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 9, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #8 of 9, Part I): A More Research-Based Assessment of VAMs’ Potentials

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 18, 2016

VAMboozled!: Virginia SGP’s Side of the Story

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 6, 2016

VAMboozled!: Teachers’ “Similar” Value-Added Estimates Yield “Different” Meanings Across “Different” Contexts

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 20, 2016

VAMboozled!: Kane is at It, Again: “Statistically Significant” Claims Exaggerated to Influence Policy

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 12, 2016

VAMboozled!: The ACT Testing Corporation (Unsurprisingly) Against America’s Opt-Out Movement

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 31, 2016

VAMboozled: Contradictory Data Complicate Definitions of, and Attempts to Capture, “Teacher Effects”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 25, 2016

VAMboozled!: Chetty et al. v. Rothstein on VAM-Based Bias, Again

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 22, 2016

VAMboozled!: In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 15, 2016

VAMboozled!: Report on the Stability of Student Growth Percentile (SGP) “Value-Added” Estimates

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 2, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #7 of 9): VAMs Situated in Appropriate Ecologies

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 27, 2016

VAMboozled!: Houston Lawsuit Update, with Summary of Expert Witnesses’ Findings about the EVAAS

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 19, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #6 of 9): VAMs as Tools for “Egg-Crate” Schools

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 8, 2016

VAMboozled!: Why Standardized Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers (and Teacher Education Programs)

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 29, 2015

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #4 of 9): Make Room VAMs for Observations

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 16, 2015

VAMboozled!: Just Released: National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 25, 2015

VAMboozled!: Just Released: The American Education Research Association’s (AERA) Statement on VAMs

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 16, 2015

VAMboozled: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #3 of 9): Exploring VAMs’ Potentials

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 20, 2015

VAMboozled!: “Efficiency” as a Constitutional Mandate for Texas’s Educational System

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 22, 2015

VAMboozled!: Two Questions Every Presidential Candidate Needs to Answer about Education

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 31, 2015

VAMboozled!: New Research Study: Controlling for Student Background Variables Matters

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 24, 2015

VAMboozled!: NY Teacher Lederman’s Day in Court

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: EVAAS, Value-Added, and Teacher Branding

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 4, 2015

VAMboozled!: The Multiple Teacher Evaluation System(s) in New Mexico, from a Concerned New Mexico Parent

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 29, 2015

VAMboozled!: Economists Declare Victory for VAMs

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 22, 2015

VAMboozled!: It’s a VAM Shame...

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 15, 2015

VAMboozled!: Splits, Rotations, and Other Consequences of Teaching in a High-Stakes Environment in an Urban School

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 29, 2015

VAMboozled!: NY’s Board of Regents Voted Today (11:6) in Favor of the State’s New Teacher Evaluation System

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 16, 2015

VAMboozled!: Breaking News: New York’s Sheri Lederman is to Have Her Day in Court

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 5, 2015

VAMboozled!: New Mexico Teachers Burn Their State-Based Teacher Evaluations

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 28, 2015

VAMboozled!: Teacher Won’t be Bullied by Alhambra (AZ) School Officials

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 20, 2015

VAMboozled!: My Book on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 5, 2015

VAMboozled!: Playing Fair: Factors that Influence VAM for Special Education Teachers (by Umari Osgood)

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Umari Osgood and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 24, 2015

VAMboozled!: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: The Silencing of the Educators: A Shocking Idea, and Trending

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 9, 2015

VAMboozled!: New York Times Article on “Grading Teachers by the Test”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 30, 2015

VAMboozled!: NY Congressman’s Letter to Duncan on Behalf of NY Teacher Lederman

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 19, 2015

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