New CBER Research Offers a Clearer Way to Compare Indiana School Outcomes — Muncie Journal

By Ball State Communications— MUNCIE, IN—New research from Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research(CBER) provides a new, easy-to-use way to compare how Indiana public school corporations are performing—one that helps place test results in context and makes comparisons across very different communities more meaningful. CBER’s study uses a “value-added” method that looks at student outcomes and then estimates how much of the difference in school performance is associated with factors that school corporations cannot easily control—such as student...