Sentences with phrase «biased measures of teacher performance»
Because value - added measures adjust for the characteristics of students in a given classroom, they are less biased measures of teacher performance than are unadjusted test score measures, and they may be less biased even than some observational measures.
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In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.
If the socioeconomic status and demographic characteristics of the classrooms taught by National Board teachers differ from those of noncertified teachers, measures of teacher quality that rely on student performance may be biased.
Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.
He contends that only random assignment of teachers and students — wholly impractical in big school systems — can eliminate enough bias and error to obtain a valid measure of how much teachers improve student performance.