Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey, <br/><br/>
Rethinking value-added models in education : critical perspectives on tests and assessment-based accountability / 
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley. 
 - First published 2014. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2014. 
 - xix, 251 pages :  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Socially engineering the road to utopia -- Value-added models (VAMs) and the human factor -- A VAMoramic view of the nation -- Highly questionable yet often unquestioned assumptions -- Assumptions used as rationales and justifications -- Test-based, statistical, and methodological assumptions -- Nontraditional concerns about traditional methodological notions -- Reliability and validity -- Bias and the random assignment of students into classrooms -- Alternatives, solutions, and conclusions. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415820110 (hardback) 9780415820127 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Educational accountability--United States.<br/>Educational indicators--United States.<br/>Educational tests and measurements--United States.<br/>Teachers--Rating of--Mathematical models.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>379.158  / AME/R