The other half of the rating will
combine measures of student achievement, including growth on standardized tests, scores for the building where a teacher works, and other elements like district - level assessments or student surveys.
Not exact matches
As well, CT showed larger effects on the mathematics
achievement of special need
students than that
of general education
students, the positive effect
of CT was greater when
combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as
measures of mathematics
achievement reported larger effects
of CT than studies that used standardized tests.
By
combining teacher -
student links with the ability to
measure achievement gains using common assessments, we could be generating lower - cost, faster - turnaround evaluations
of curricula and other educational interventions.
None
of the
measures of data use had a significant effect on
student achievement when added to the equation on their own, nor did they have any unique explanatory value when
combined with the four demographic
measures in the final equation.
In addition, some research, including an ongoing study
of measures of effective teaching supported by the Gates Foundation, gives credence to the use
of student achievement measures when
combined with other
measures, such as teacher observations and
student feedback, as part
of an effective teacher evaluation system.
Combined with teacher - made
measures of authentic
student achievement, perhaps we can begin to close the
achievement gap and build meaningful educational opportunities and success for
students.
It implemented a performance - based compensation system
combining student growth and
achievement measures with 23
measures of school effectiveness, such as positive school culture, effective parent engagement, and teacher leadership.
The MET project has «demonstrated that it is possible to identify great teaching by
combining three types
of measures: classroom observations,
student surveys, and
student achievement gains.»
Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that
students at schools with an arts focus
combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types
of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic
achievement scores and arts integration learning
measures.
But the study also showed that the predictive power
of these rubrics strengthened when classroom observation scores were
combined with
measures of student achievement gains and
student surveys.
Gathering Feedback for Teaching:
Combining HighQuality Observations with
Student Surveys and
Achievement Gains: Initial Year 2 Findings from the
Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project