William H. Angoff Memorial Lecture Series Reports

Angoff
William H. Angoff,
1919-1993

Most Recent Lecture

View a full-length video (Flash, 1 hour, 58 sec.) of the 14th William H. Angoff Memorial Lecture, “Inferences About Teachers Based on Student Test Scores,” by Edward H. Haertel, Jacks Family Professor of Education at Stanford University. The March 2013 lecture discussed the reliability and validity of teacher value-added scores, whether they measure what they purport to measure and are free from bias and distortion, and how strongly they relate to other indicators reflecting broader notions of teacher quality or effectiveness. Slides are also available from the presentation. A short video interview (Flash, 6 min. 12 sec.) where Professor Haertel talks about Value-Added Models and other ways of assessing teacher effectiveness is also available.

The Angoff Lecture Report will be available later in 2013.

About the Lecture Series

The Angoff Lecture Series was established in 1994 to honor the life and work of William H. Angoff, an ETS research scientist who distinguished himself as a prominent contributor in the field of educational measurement in more than 40 years at ETS. During that time, Angoff authored some of the classic publications on psychometrics, including the definitive text "Scales, Norms, and Equivalent Scores," which appeared in Robert L. Thorndike's Educational Measurement (2nd edition).

The lecture series honors Angoff's legacy by encouraging and supporting the relatively nontechnical discussion of public interest issues related to educational measurement.

Past Lectures