Educators worry that high-stakes testing will induce teachers and their students to focus only on the test and ignore other, untested aspects of knowledge. Some counter that although this may be true, knowing something is better than knowing nothing and many students would benefit even by...

Educators worry that high-stakes testing will induce teachers and their students to focus only on the test and ignore other, untested aspects of knowledge. Some counter that although this may be true, knowing something is better than knowing nothing and many students would benefit even by...

"In this paper, we compare subjective principal assessments of teachers to the traditional determinants of teacher compensation ŁV education and experience ŁV and another potential compensation mechanism -- value-added measures of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement gains. We...