Sentences with phrase «actual effectiveness of teachers»

But with its vast data system and years of value - added assessment data, Tennessee is able to track the actual effectiveness of teachers and principals as well as their distribution in every corner of the state — not simply their educational credentials and certification.

Not exact matches

However, the strength of this preference depends on two things: the actual difference in turnover rates and the difference in effectiveness between an experienced and a novice teacher.

However, it has proved frustratingly difficult to compare teachers» actual effectiveness in the classroom, because as a field, we too often rely on proxies like certification and tenure instead of on data that quantify teachers» impact on student achievement.

Value - added estimates for a teacher can fluctuate for a variety of reasons, many not necessarily related to actual effectiveness at producing student gains on achievement tests.

This can occur, regardless of what is actually happening in terms of actual effectiveness across America's classrooms, when the purported value that teachers add to or detract from student learning (i.e., 50 % of the state's model) is to substantively count, because VAM output is not calculated in absolute terms, but rather in relative or normative terms.

[1] Unfortunately, not only do most states fail to connect advanced certification to actual evidence of teacher effectiveness, but also the requirements teachers must most often meet are not even related to teacher effectiveness.

Without offering any actual evidence, Mr. Mucher suggests that prospective teachers have been scared off from applying to his program by much of the agenda of the corporate reform movement: increasing accountability demands placed on teachers, using student test scores to determine teachers» effectiveness ratings, and «the way teachers are blamed for much broader social problems.»

It's why the use of VAM (Value Added Measures) can not contribute valid or reliable data to a teacher's effectiveness rating — because VAM is a predictive model based on comparing a set of actual student test scores against a hypothetical group of scores.