Sentences with phrase «between evaluation points»

Unlike the traditional evaluation process where principals may only evaluate teachers once a year or in some cases every couple of years, with very little feedback on practice between evaluation points, today's evaluation means all day, every day.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, the complexity of evaluation does point to the plurality of relevant ideals that may be legitimately espoused and to the inevitable conflict between those who cling to the simpler harmonies and those who would risk their sacrifice for the sake of greater massiveness.

Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.

Beyond probationary periods, certification requirements and evaluations, education reform leaders are looking to take on larger long - term sticking points between their groups and New York's city and state teachers» union, including merit pay.

King is the focal point in a dispute between the BTF and the state over teacher evaluations.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

Some may attempt to answer this question by pointing to a similar dichotomy between evaluations of individual members of Congress and of Congress itself.

After speaking to more than a dozen observers of the teacher evaluation legislation from various points of view, the answer is a more complex layer of personality rubs, distrust and skepticism, mixed in with the state's longstanding feud between the state's conservative school reform community and teacher unions.

Harris continues that «The point is that it would be a shame if we went back to a no - feedback world, and even more of a shame if we did so because of an over-stated connection between evaluation, accountability, and value - added.»

For the Alabama teachers who are eligible, they are (after a staggered period of time) to be primarily evaluated (i.e., for up to 45 % of a teacher's total evaluation score) on the extent to which they purportedly cause student growth in achievement, with student growth being defined as the teachers» purported impacts on «[t] he change in achievement for an individual student between two or more points in time.»

I think what this point highlights is that without an a priori belief about the relationship between time from prediction and an expected confidence interval for prediction accuracy, it's very hard to know where the finish line is in this kind of an evaluation.

At this point, I doubt there is a reliable way to distinguish between «honest» and «dishonest» evaluations of the past record.

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