Roster confirmation process for verifying teacher/student links¶

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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 3 studies (3 associational), q2 · 0 of 3 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description¶

A roster confirmation process is a data-quality procedure in which "teachers verify the subjects and students they taught," producing confirmed teacher/student links. The working paper uses these confirmed links as the benchmark against which links from unconfirmed administrative data are compared, in the context of the Value-Added Assessment System for DC Schools and Teachers project (2009-2015) prepared for District of Columbia Public Schools.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Requires teachers to verify the subjects and students they taught

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• elementary school students in grades 4 and 5

Target Learning Goals¶

• accurate teacher effectiveness measurement in value-added models

Claims¶

• About one in six grade 4 and 5 math and reading/ELA teachers is linked in unconfirmed administrative data to a subject they do not teach [+W]
• Teacher-confirmed roster data show levels of co-teaching far beyond what appears in administrative data [+W]
• Instruction in upper elementary grades is often departmentalized: about one in six elementary school teachers in the original administrative data was linked to a subject he or she did not teach [+W]

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Eric Isenberg, Bing-ru Teh, Elias Walsh. (2013). Elementary School Data Issues: Implications for Research Using Value-Added Models. Working Paper 23, Chicago, IL: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/elementary-school-data-issues-implications-for-research-using-valueadded-models