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Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely with districts and harnessing big data to identify effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.

And, while they're at it, please also offer data, research, and evaluation evidence that speak to the sorts of questions I posed at the outset: How well is differentiated instruction carried out and by how many teachers?

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

«We have been studying, along with our partners in Tennessee, how teachers learn from each other at work, and how performance evaluation data might help foster and inform learning between colleagues.

The evaluations that occurred at each stage of the career ladder assessed teachers on multiple «domains of competence» using several distinct data sources (such as student and principal questionnaires, peer evaluations, a teacher's portfolio, and a written test).

The establishment of annual systematic student testing and data collection systems at the school, district, and state levels has created an opportunity for policymakers to link teacher evaluations and tenure to student performance in a way that was heretofore impossible.

The district wants to use test score data as one of several measures in its new evaluation system, as it is currently doing in a voluntary program involving nearly 700 teachers and administrators at more than 100 schools.

The policy requires that at least 40 percent of teachers» evaluation be based on a value - added model (VAM)-- a model that comprises a bewildering formula that incorporates test data from students they do not teach or from subjects they do not teach.

In most cases, new teacher evaluations will consist of two parts: observations of classrooms, which look at how teachers teach; and outcomes on tests, including scores for students and value - added data, which measure how students progress.

CEC helped RPS revise its teacher evaluation process and learn to use student growth measures before implementing PAR; conduct and analyze a detailed system assessment before beginning strategic planning; and develop a data - based decision - making culture at the school level before the implementation of SMART Goals as a school improvement process.

In addition, Louisiana, Florida, Colorado and a handful of other states have pledged in their Race to the Top bids to make student academic growth data account for at least half of a teacher's evaluation.

«I thought it was generous for 20 percent to be data,» says Kristen Dawn, a German teacher at Ben Davis High School and president of the Wayne Township Classroom Teachers Association, which provided input to district administrators developing the evaluation system.

His passion is to use data to improve educational outcomes, so he jumped at an opportunity to work in the Louisiana Department of Education, serving as a project manager for the new teacher evaluation platform.

«We worked hard at the bargaining table to craft a system that intelligently uses student data in the evaluation of teachers,» he said.

For classroom teachers, as defined in s. 1012.01 (2)(a), excluding substitute teachers, the student learning growth portion of the evaluation must include growth data for students assigned to the teacher over the course of at least 3 years.

The study sample included four districts that were «fully implementing» their teacher evaluation systems at the time data were collected in 2012 and early 2013, and four districts that were considered to be «partially implementing» their systems.

States will also need to develop a plan for using teacher - evaluation data to make sure at - risk students are getting their fair share of quality teachers.

Because state legislators, at the behest of the National Education Association's affiliate there, refused to pass a law back in February allowing the use of test score growth data in teacher evaluations.

At least 50 percent of a classroom teacher's or school administrator's performance evaluation, or 40 percent if less than 3 years of student performance data are available, shall be based upon learning growth or achievement of the teacher's students or, for a school administrator, the students attending that school; the remaining portion shall be based upon factors identified in district - determined, state - approved evaluation system plans.

New teacher evaluation systems demand the inclusion of student data at a time when scores on new assessments are dropping.

Prior to her current role, Cara conducted research and evaluation at Urban Teachers as a Strategic Data Fellow through the Center for Education Policy Research.

Prior to joining MCPS, she was the Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation and a Strategic Data Project fellow at Urban Teachers, a residency - based teacher preparation program.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Weston is only now searching for an online tool to manage teacher evaluation data, unlike many districts that started out looking at the new teacher evaluation guidelines through a data management software lens.

Because evaluations are set at the local level, Ritz says districts using other teacher evaluation systems could also minimize how ISTEP data is used to determine merit pay.

Specifically, officials at the state and district levels have had difficulty building staff capacity for implementing the reforms, meeting the requirements to develop teacher evaluations and increase student learning time, and gathering data on performance in SIG schools to make decisions about future grant renewals.

April Bain, a math teacher at Downtown Magnets High School, said she was «flabbergasted» the district rates teachers without considering student achievement and hopes the decision will force it to add student test data to evaluations.

If there are not student growth and assessment data available for a teacher or administrator for at least three school years, the annual year - end evaluation shall be based on all student growth and assessment data that are available for that teacher or administrator.

New York City teachers recently balked at a proposal to include student test data in the evaluations.

If there are student growth and assessment data available for a teacher or administrator for at least three school years, the annual year - end evaluation shall be based on the student growth and assessment data for the most recent three - consecutive - school - year period.

Test data should only be used in evaluations provided that the district and administrators at each school adequately support teachers» professional growth in those areas identified as «needing improvement.»

Both moves have guaranteed that the two unions have gotten their way on nearly every educational issue — including the passage of a law last year that bans districts from laying off teachers at the expense of fewer days in school for children in need of more time in classrooms, and Brown's decision to cancel funding for the CalTIDES teacher data system (effectively ending efforts to overhaul teacher evaluations).

According to PEAC members, some of the issues that PEAC and state officials should look at include the requirement that statewide test data be included in evaluations, the strict formulaic approach of the system that limits judgment and takes an inordinate amount of time away from teaching and learning, specified teacher rating categories that interfere with improvement, and evaluator training that may not ensure calibration.

Paul Ronevich, science teacher at the Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy, will discuss his experiences using the data from student surveys, and William Hileman, Vice President of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers will discuss the challenges and policy implications of integrating student surveys into teacher evaluations.

There are two preconditions: A state must have an approved application for stabilization funds, and at the time of applying, there must be not any legal, statutory, or regulatory barriers at the state level to linking data on student achievement or student growth to teachers and principals for purposes of evaluation.

We will support evidence - based policy reforms aimed at ensuring principals have the autonomy and data they need to lead schools with strong cultures focused on improving teaching and learning, and that they are trained to use teacher evaluations to deliver high - quality observations and feedback.

It also will be recommended that local boards only grant tenure to teachers who achieve at least an «effective teacher» rating on the new multiple - measure teacher effectiveness evaluation, of which a significant portion will be based on student achievement data.

While at Mathematica, he was primarily responsible for data management and analytic tasks for education evaluations for the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, which covered areas such as teacher collaboration, the effectiveness of K - 3 mathematics curricula, and the implementation and effects of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants.

Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value - Added, a new report from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings, addresses key issues in the use of value - added data and concludes that it has an important role to play in teacher evaluation.

«[W] e will no longer invest directly in new initiatives based on teacher evaluations and ratings,» Gates said, adding his foundation «will continue to gather data on the impact of these systems and encourage the use of these systems to improve instruction at the local level.»

Configure summative evaluation systems and manage internal and imported data, generating final reports at the teacher, school, or district level.

Policy Points also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.

However, I see one massive problem — and it's a problem that no one, Brill included, seems interested in addressing: Everyone wants to tie these new teacher evaluations to student performance data, but no one wants to talk publicly about the fact that we lack sufficient metrics for truly evaluating the full extent of whether or not young people are learning and achieving at high levels.

As part of each teacher's regular evaluation, some districts already look at student test score data that demonstrate how much students advanced while working with that teacher (value - added data).

See also the recommendations offered, some with which I agree on the observational side (e.g., ensuring that teachers receive multiple observations during a school year by multiple evaluators), and none with which I agree on the value - added side (e.g., use at least two years of student achievement data in teacher evaluation ratings — rather, researchers agree that three years of value - added data are needed, as based on at least four years of student - level test data).

By creating data - based professional development plans, district leaders can address teachers» strengths and opportunities for improvement identified during performance evaluations at the district, school and individual level.

This means that USDE's proposed evaluations of specific teacher education programs (e.g., art education at Ohio State University) will be aided by the use of extensive «teacher of record» data routinely gathered by schools and districts, including personnel files that typically require the teacher's college transcripts, degree earned, certifications, scores on tests for any teacher license and so on.

Thirty - nine states incorporate objective measures of student achievement data into teacher evaluations, and of those, 17 report it is the most significant factor.55 And most states now use at least three tiers to differentiate teachers (Figure 6).

Data analysis of the student and teacher evaluations can help administrators identify students who are currently struggling, at - risk students, and some of the underlying factors that cause students to struggle in their school or district.

ASCD's newest issue of Policy Points (PDF) also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.