Sentences with phrase «clear measures of teacher effectiveness»

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In addition, while many have noted that the statistical methods employed to generate value - added estimates will force a distribution of «teacher effectiveness» scores, it is not clear that the distinctions generated and measured have educational (or clinical) meaning.

However, the need to examine teacher effectiveness is clear, and a growing number of districts and states are finding ways to measure teacher impact by relying on multiple measures of student achievement, observation, samples of assignments, student work and more.

On the eve of the administration of SBAC testing in our State, it has become clear to me, as interim Commissioner of Education, that there is much validity embedded in the much - heated controversy surrounding Common Core State Standards, mandated standardized testing to measure progress on those standards, and the intended practice of evaluating teacher effectiveness based on those student test results.