Sentences with phrase «different effectiveness scores»
For example, different statistical models (all based on reasonable assumptions) yield different effectiveness scores.
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DelPlano, however, conceded the idea of placing heavy weight on test scores to measure her effectiveness «makes me nervous» because there are variables in different classrooms across New Jersey.
This kind of analysis is similar to what is being demanded to assess teacher effectiveness at the city, state, and federal levels: comparing test scores on two different dates to see change over time.
In DC, IMPACT asks evaluators to consider a teachers» expertise in a number of different domains, using test scores as one indicator of teacher effectiveness.
This is particularly important as illustrated in the prior post (Footnote 8 of the full piece to be exact), because «Teacher effectiveness ratings were based on, in order of importance by the proportion of weight assigned to each indicator [including first and foremost]: (1) scores derived via [this] district - created and purportedly «rigorous» (Dee & Wyckoff, 2013, p. 5) yet invalid (i.e., not having been validated) observational instrument with which teachers are observed five times per year by different folks, but about which no psychometric data were made available (e.g., Kappa statistics to test for inter-rater consistencies among scores).»
Thus we have good reason to suspect that school effectiveness biases comparisons of the value - added scores of teachers working in different schools.
If value - added scores from different tests lead to different conclusions about a teacher, then we may worry that value - added from any single test provides an incomplete picture of a teacher's effectiveness, and that using it to make decisions about teachers may be inefficient or, for some teachers, unfair.