Sentences with phrase «adding subjective evaluations»

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These teachers were evaluated on their «performance» using almost exclusively (except for the 5 % school - level value - added indicator) the same subjective measures integral to many traditional evaluation systems as well as student achievement / growth on teacher - developed and administrator - approved classroom - based tests, instead.

Teacher value - added and principals» subjective ratings are positively correlated and principals» evaluations are better predictors of a teacher's value added than traditional approaches to teacher compensation focused on experience and formal education.

But in a role as one piece of a more comprehensive evaluation methodology, value - added measures can inject an objective measure that can amplify or validate information gleaned from more subjective methodologies.

Weingarten has always embraced teacher accountability in theory, but with the caveat that the system has to be fair, after which she adds that there's no way to guarantee that linking student progress to testing will be fair because tests don't take subjective factors into account, nor would allowing subjective evaluations by principals be fair.