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Policy Challenges Webinar: Bridging Research and Practice:
Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in New England

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Defining, measuring, and rewarding teacher effectiveness is a challenge facing schools, districts, and states nationwide. In this webinar co-hosted with the New England Comprehensive Center and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, Dr. Douglas Harris presented current research on value-added models for measuring teacher effectiveness. Dr. Harris is an economist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who researches how education policies influence the level and equity of student educational outcomes.

Among the webinar participants were representatives from the New England Collaborative for Educator Quality and Effectiveness (NECEQE), a newly formed initiative comprised of teacher-effectiveness leaders from each of the six New England states. After learning from Dr. Harris about the research base on value-added models, participants posed questions and engaged in dialogue about specific strategies for implementing such models in their states.

Dr. Douglas Harris

Kathy Dunne

Carol Keirstead

Presenters:

• Dr. Douglas Harris, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Affiliated Scholar, Center for American Progress
• Kathy Dunne, Moderator; New Hampshire State Liaison, REL-NEI; Learning Innovations at WestEd
• Carol Keirstead, Director, New England Comprehensive Center

Read Publications by Dr. Harris:

• Would Accountability Based on Teacher Value-Added Be Smart Policy? An Examination of the Statistical Properties and Policy Alternatives. (Education Finance and Policy; 2009)
• Point/Counterpoint: Teacher value-added: Don’t end the search before it starts. (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; 2009)
• The Policy Uses and “Policy Validity” of Value-Added and Other Teacher Quality Measures. (Paper prepared for Educational Testing Service; 2007)

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