Sentences with phrase «to determine teacher effectiveness»

«This, I think, is destructive, not productive,» he said, in part because he believes the governor's proposal would put too much emphasis on standardized - test scores in determining teacher effectiveness.

The Obama administration's 4.35 billion dollar Race to the Top initiative, a competitive grant that offered states money in return for reforms, included incentives for states to adopt evaluation procedures aimed at better determining teacher effectiveness.

«There is nothing in New York state's law that prevents looking at student test scores [as one of many factors] to determine teacher effectiveness» Mr. Iannuzzi said.

As a comparison, I would think the complexity of determining teacher effectiveness for over 3 million teachers and 50 million students can easily rival that of the science involved with the Large Haydron Collider, but the concentrated scientific effort to determine teacher effectiveness is very small compared to that involved with LHC.

Two other education groups came forward June 1 with proposals for new teacher performance reviews that also endorsed the use of student test scores as one measure to determine teacher effectiveness.

Melrose Elementary teachers and its principal, Bernadette Lucas, took part in Los Angeles Unified School District's pilot teacher evaluation program, which factored in student achievement to determine teacher effectiveness.

Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Jenkins reacted to yesterday's decision by the Florida Department of Education to suspend the consequences of Algebra I, II and Geometry, by holding all students harmless from the numerous «common finals» (district developed end of course exams) mandated by the state to determine teacher effectiveness.

Its dual purpose is also to hold teachers accountable for students» achievement, using high - stakes test scores to determine teacher effectiveness.

For example, suppose that a school system uses both observation and value - added scores to determine teacher effectiveness.

Those who insist that test scores should determine teacher effectiveness, school quality and whether a student is ready to graduate have a responsibility to guarantee that the tests actually measure what teachers teach and students learn.

So administrators would have to rely only on observation to determine teacher effectiveness.