Sentences with phrase «correlate with teacher effectiveness»

They are politically tough to eliminate, not correlated with teacher effectiveness outside the math and science fields, and generally unaligned with districts» priorities for professional development.

While leaving districts flexibility to decide their own pay scales, states should promote compensation tied to teacher effectiveness and discourage districts from basing pay solely on criteria not correlated with teacher effectiveness.

Not exact matches

A few studies that tried to correlate teacher factors (both intelligence and personality) with effectiveness found teaching too complex to be influenced by any one or two factors.

But, as numerous studies have shown, having a master's degree is generally not correlated with measures of teacher effectiveness, based on student test scores.

Students who scored in the top quarter of the sixth - grade math exam averaged anywhere from 19 to 26 on the high school ACT math test; the variations correlated with the effectiveness scores of their high school math teachers.

Much earlier (1989), Ken Howey and Nancy Zimpher, then at Ohio State, analyzed six exemplary — so they concluded — preservice teacher - education programs, all in the Midwest, but did not correlate their interview findings with program effectiveness.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

In this case, this might be observed when VAM estimates of teacher (or school / district) effectiveness relate, or more specifically correlate well with other measures (e.g., supervisor evaluation scores) that are also developed to measure the same construct (e.g., teacher effectiveness) at or around the same time.

Nor do these teacher ratings seem to correlate with school performance, suggesting teacher evaluations are not a meaningful measure of teacher effectiveness.

The 5Essentials Survey assesses five key effectiveness factors that are correlated with school success: Effective Leaders, Collaborative Teachers, Supportive Environment, Involved Families, and Ambitious Instruction.

In addition, and as directly related to VAMs, in this study researchers also found that each rating from each of the four domains, as well as the average of all ratings, «correlated positively with student learning [gains, as derived via the Nevada Growth Model, as based on the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) model; for more information about the SGP model see here and here; see also p. 6 of this report here], in reading and in math, as would be expected if the ratings measured teacher effectiveness in promoting student learning» (p. i).

Prior to the new system, teacher effectiveness was negatively correlated with district exit and we show that the policy significantly strengthened this relationship, primarily by increasing the relative likelihood of exit for teachers in the bottom quintile of the quality distribution.

«In common with a lot of US analyses, we found that teacher effectiveness was not correlated with the teacher's own academic record.