Sentences with phrase «added by their individual teachers»

Students added by their individual teachers can not be shared by multiple teachers, and this process can also lead to licensing issues.

Not exact matches

This statistical methodology introduced a new paradigm for predicting student academic progress and comparing the prediction to the contribution of individual teachers (or value added) as measured by student gain scores.

They tried to isolate how much any individual teacher adds or detracts by comparing how the students scored on end - of - year tests to how similar students did with other teachers, controlling for a host of such things as test scores in the prior year, gender, suspensions, English language knowledge, and class size.

Last summer, the Los Angeles Times created a furor with its hotly debated decision to post the value - added scores for thousands of Los Angeles teachers and to identify individual teachers, by name, as more or less effective.

As explained in a guest blog this year by by FairTest's Lisa Guisbond, these measures use student standardized test scores to track the growth of individual students as they progress through the grades and see how much «value» a teacher has added.

Value - added models try to separate the contribution of individual teachers or schools to students» learning growth measured by standardized test scores.

These books are often purchased by the individual teacher and the expense can add up.

The second means through which value - added measures may be used for improvement is by providing information for making better human resource decisions about individual teachers.

Emanuel, who promised a longer school day during his campaign, attempted to go around the union by asking teachers at individual schools to waive the contract and add 90 minutes to the day.

· Teacher compensation should be restructured to provide more incentives tied to performance, first by significantly reducing the number of steps on the salary scale, and then by phasing in a performance based system as the value - added assessment model evolves to the individual classroom level.

This is in part because there are many other influences on student gains other than individual teachers, and in part because teachers» value - added ratings are affected by differences in the students who are assigned to them, even when statistical models try to control for student demographic variables.

Value - added models are statistical models that generally try to isolate the contributions to student test scores by individual teachers or schools from factors outside the school's or teacher's control.

Value - added goes deeper than grading schools on student test scores by looking at how individual teachers and schools as a whole contribute to improvements in the test scores.