CEU = Continuing Education Unit
FERPA = Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
HIPAA = Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
IDEA = Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
IEP = Individualized Education Program
RTI = Response to Intervention
ASHA policy and practice documents are available from the ASHA Practice Policy website.
For evidence‐based practice in the schools resources, go to ASHA's Evidence-Based Practice in the Schools webpage.
Other relevant ASHA documents include:
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub. L. No. 111-5, § 123 Stat. 115. Ballou, D. (2002). Sizing up test scores. Education Next, 2(2), 10-15. Retrieved from www.cgp.upenn.edu/pdf/10.pdf [PDF].
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (2010). Learning about teaching: Initial findings from the measures of effective teaching project. Retrieved from www.metproject.org/downloads/Preliminary_Findings-Research_Paper.pdf [PDF].
Dollaghan, C. A. (2007). The handbook for evidence‐based practice in communication disorders. Baltimore, MD: Brookes.
Goe, L., Bell, C., & Little, O. (2008). Approaches to evaluating teacher effectiveness: A research synthesis. Retrieved from the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality website: www.gtlcenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/EvaluatingTeachEffectiveness.pdf [PDF].
Goe, L., & Holdheide, L. (2010). Measuring teacher contributions to student learning growth for "the other 69 percent."
Goe, L., & Holdheide, L. (2011). Measuring teachers' contributions to student learning growth for nontested grades and subjects.. Retrieved from www.gtlcenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/MeasuringTeachersContributions.pdf [PDF].
Holdheide, L., Goe, L., Croft, A., & Reschly, D. (2010). Challenges in evaluating special education teachers and English language learner specialists. Retrieved from www.gtlcenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/July2010Brief.pdf [PDF].
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq. Kupermintz, H. (2003). Teacher effects and teacher effectiveness: A validity investigation of the Tennessee value added assessment system. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25(3), 287–298.
McCaffrey, D. F., Lockwood, J. R., Koretz, D. M., & Hamilton, L. S. (2004). Evaluating value added models for teacher accountability. Retrieved from RAND Corporation website: www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG158.pdf [PDF].
Meyer, R. H., & Dokumaci, E. (2009, December). Value‐added models and the next generation of PACE Page 34 assessments. Paper presented at Exploratory Seminar: Measurement Challenges Within the Race to the Top Agenda, Princeton, NJ.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Student Learning, Student Teaching Task Force. (2011). Student learning, student achievement: How do teachers measure up? Retrieved from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards website: www.nbpts.org/sites/default/files/documents/research/NBPTS_Student%20Learning%20Student%20Achievement%20(2).pdf [PDF].
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 20 U.S.C. § 6301.
Pearson Education. (2004). Value‐added assessment systems. Retrieved from Pearson website: http://images.pearsonclinical.com/images/PDF/assessmentReports/ValueAdded.pdf [PDF].
Sackett, D. L., Straus, S. E., Richardson, W. S., Rosenberg, W., & Haynes, R. B. (2000). Evidenced based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM (2nd ed.). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone.
Watson, J. G., Kraemer, S. B., & Thorn, C. A. (2009). The other 69 percent: Fairly rewarding the performance of teachers of nontested subjects and grades. Retrieved from the Center for Educator Compensation Reform website: http://cecr.ed.gov/guides/other69Percent.pdf [PDF].
Coulter, T. (Facilitator). (2010, April 14). Expanding teacher evaluation: Effective practices for evaluating teachers of all students [Webcast]. Available from the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality website: www.tqsource.org/webcasts/evaluatingTeachers/index.php.
Holley, M. (2008). Using VAA assessment to define teacher quality. Retrieved from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy website: www.mackinac.org/9598.
Kane, T. J., & Staiger, D. O. (2002). The promise and pitfalls of using imprecise school accountability measures. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(4), 91–114.
Schochet, P. Z., & Chiang, H. S. (2010). Error rates in measuring teacher and school performance based on student test score gains. Retrieved from the Institute of Education Sciences website: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104004/pdf/20104004.pdf [PDF].
National Alliance of Specialized Instructional Support Personnel (NASISP)
Value‐Added Research Center ("value" assessment research center)
The Center for Great Teachers and Leaders
The Center for Greater Philadelphia's Value‐Added Assessment