Each district partner will have a standing stakeholder group to decide the local, contextually specific items which are specific to each district (e.g. weights for overall
educator effectiveness scores).
Not exact matches
Professors Develop Metrics for Teacher Performance The Dartmouth, 4/17/13 «Standardized test
scores and student surveys successfully evaluate teacher
effectiveness and identify the best
educators, according to a study conducted by economics department chair Douglas Staiger and Harvard University education and economics professor Thomas Kane.»
The evaluation of
educator effectiveness based on student test
scores and classroom observation, for example, has the potential to drive instructional improvement and promises to reveal important aspects of classroom performance and success.
The true measure of student proficiency,
educator effectiveness, and school quality must be based on more than just students» test
scores on a few state standardized tests.
We note, for example, that there are no formal studies connecting
educator evaluation systems that use test -
score growth data with learning outcomes, making their
effectiveness impossible to judge.
Value Added Modeling growth
scores are not a reliable measure of
educator effectiveness and should not be used for employment decisions.
Measures of student learning, including value - added
scores, are just one of several components of an
educator's overall
effectiveness score.
Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test
scores to determine the «
effectiveness» of
educators.
Additionally, many states continue to use tests based on old standards despite instruction that is increasingly aligned with the Common Core standards; this is a concern where evaluation systems determine
educator effectiveness based at least in part on student test
scores.
But the association is disappointed that the new application allows districts»
educator evaluation systems to base more than 50 percent of an
educator's
effectiveness rating on student test
scores.
The instructional
effectiveness component offers
educator ratings and reliable and valid measures of student progress for both state - and non-state-tested content areas and contains an Evaluation
Score Compiler that compiles ratings, student performance and other information into one overall evaluation s
Score Compiler that compiles ratings, student performance and other information into one overall evaluation
scorescore.
The key priority for ASCD and its members in 2014 is to promote multimetric accountability so that standardized test
scores are not the sole measure of student achievement,
educator effectiveness, or school quality.