Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

TIME Magazine Needs a TIME Out

In its paper version next week, TIME Magazine will release an article titled “Rotten Apples: It’s Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher.” As the title foreshadows, the article is about how “really difficult” it is to fire a bad teacher, and how a group of Silicon Valley investors, along with Campbell Brown (award winning news anchor who recently joined “the cause” in New York, as discussed prior ">

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Five Nashville Teachers Face Termination

Three months ago, Tennessee Schools Director Jesse Register announced he was to fire 63 Tennessean teachers, of 195 total who for two consecutive years scored lowest (i.e., a 1 on a scale of 1 to 5) in terms of their overall “value-added” (as based on 35% EVAAS, 15% related “student achievement,” and 50% observational data).

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State Tests: Instructional Sensitivity and (Small) Differences between Extreme Teachers

As per Standard 1.2. of the newly released 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing authored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), and National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME):

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Thomas Kane On Educational Reform

You might recall from a prior post, the name of Thomas Kane, an economics professor from Harvard University who also directed the $45 million worth

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Can Today’s Tests Yield Instructionally Useful Data?

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, a former middle- and high-school mathematics teacher, received her Ph.D. in 2002 from Arizona State University in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with an emphasis on Research Methods.

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