Publications

"Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn". (Editor, with P. A. Moss, D. C. Pullin, J. P. Gee, and L. J. Young, 2008)

"Uses and misuses of data for educational accountability and improvement" (104th NSSE Yearbook, Part 2) (Editor, with J. L. Herman, 2006)

"Reliability" in R. L. Brennan (Ed.), Educational measurement (4th ed., 2006)

"The idea of testing: psychometric and sociocultural perspectives" in Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives (with P. A. Moss, D. Pullin, and J. P. Gee, 2005)

"Using a Longitudinal Student Tracking System to Improve the Design for Public School Accountability in California" (2005)

"Validating standards-based test score interpretations" in Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives (with W. A. Lorié, 2004)

"Generalizability Analysis for Performance Assessments of Student Achievement or School Effectiveness" in Educational and Psychological Measurement (with Lee Cronbach, R.L. Linn, and R.L. Brennan, 1997)

Baker, E. L., Barton, P. E., Darling-Hammond, L., Haertel, E., Ladd, H. F., Linn, R. L., Ravitch, D., Rothstein, R., Shavelson, R. J., & Shepard, L. A. (2010, August 29). Problems with the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers (Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper #278.

Newton, X., Darling-Hammond, L., Haertel, E., & Thomas, E. (2010) Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effectiveness: An exploration of stability across models and contexts. Educational Policy Analysis Archives, 18 (23).

Williams, T., Haertel, E., Kirst, M.W., Rosin, M., Perry, M. (2011). Preparation, Placement, Proficiency: Improving Middle Grades Math Performance (Policy and Practice Brief). Mountain View, CA: EdSource.

Using Student Test Scores to Distinguish Good Teachers From Bad. AERA Symposium on "Measuring and Developing Teacher Effectiveness: An Assessment of Research, Policy, and Practice." New Orleans, LA, April 2011.

Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers. Keynote Address at the meeting of the California Educational Research Association, Anaheim, CA, December 2011.