NCPI affiliates have published several articles in the Fall 2009 issue of Education Finance and Policy examining value-added models of teacher effectiveness and value-added estimation. Affiliates published in this issue include Dale Ballou, JR Lockwood, and Daniel McCaffrey, authors or co-authors of the following articles:

• “Test Scaling and Value-Added Measurement” by Ballou.
• “Exploring Student-Teacher Interactions in Longitudinal Achievement Data” by Lockwood and McCaffrey.
• “The Intertemporal Variability of Teacher Effect Estimates” by McCaffrey, Sass, Lockwood, and Mihaly.

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The forthcoming issue of Education Finance and Policy will include more articles on value-added models by center affiliate Cory Koedel and his co-author Julian Betts.