Using Student Performance Data

Release of Florida Value-Added Model scores to the Media

As a result of a successful lawsuit, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released teacher Value-Added Model (VAM) data on Monday, February 24, 2014. The School District of Palm Beach County (District) has not released any VAM data to the public or the media as a result of this lawsuit.

The FDOE data that was released consisted of 57 different files containing numerous technical calculations across multiple years. On Tuesday, February 25, a portion of this data was reported by the Palm Beach Post (Post).

The following resources are being provided to assist teachers and others understand more about this data:

• Comparison Between Teacher Data Released by the Palm Beach Post in February, 2014 and Teacher Data Used by the School District of Palm Beach County For Teacher Evaluation (PDF)
• Illustration of data reported by the Palm Beach Post and SDPBC Teacher Evaluations (PowerPoint)
• Narrated presentation with overview of Florida VAM and SDPBCTeacher Evaluations