Sentences with phrase «evaluate teachers based on student test scores»

They want to evaluate teachers based on student test scores, increasing a test - centric focus in the schools.

Instead of digging into that, of course, Winerip jumps to the predictable conclusion that «evaluating teachers based on their students test scores may not be foolproof.»

Teacher Evaluation Should Not Rest on Student Test Scores (FairTest.org) Nice summary of the various reasons why evaluating teachers based on student test scores is just plain stupid.

VAM — evaluating teachers based on student test scores — has been disproved time and again, most recently by statisticians who aren't invested in the outcome.

Not exact matches

Teachers wouldn't be evaluated based on their students» standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York State Assembly.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

Teachers wouldn't be evaluated based on their students» standardized test scores any longer under a measure approved by the New York state Assembly.

The contract cemented the practice of evaluating teachers based on students» test scores.

Schools have already begun teaching, and students testing, based on the tougher material, and the test scores are being used to evaluate teachers and principals.

In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

It never occurred to me that teachers would be «evaluated» based on the scores achieved by other teachers» students or that districts would have to scramble to find any tests they could just so that they could claim to be evaluating teachers, even those teaching physical education or the arts, based on scores on standardized tests.

It was only when the development of assessments began, and the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) No Child Left Behind waiver process included clear requirements for evaluating teachers based partly on student test scores, that the unions began to balk.

In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to come up with ways to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

And while they continued to ignore it, the misuse of tests became ever more extreme, in some cases reaching truly absurd levels — for example, «evaluating» teachers based on the scores obtained by teachers in other schools or teaching other subjects to different students.

«It is, quite simply, ludicrous,» she said, «to propose evaluating teacher preparation programs based on the performance [test scores] of the students taught by a program's graduates.»

Oregon has settled on an approach to evaluating teachers based in part by their students» test score gains, officials announced Monday.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single measure,» Weingarten said.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

Faced with these challenges, the administration has relaxed its aggressive timetables for states to begin evaluating all teachers based on objective measures of student learning, such as standardized test scores.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

Teachers and administrators alike had been anxiously waiting for more details about the evaluations since Gov. Chris Christie signed a new tenure law that permits them to be evaluated, at least in part based on their students» test scores and other measurements of achievement.

Faced with pushback from both major teachers unions, the Gates Foundation and several states, the U.S. Department of Education has loosened its timetable for states to evaluate teachers based in part on student scores on the new Common Core tests.

Whatever the reason, the fluctuations suggest that the current excitement about evaluating teachers based on their students» test scores may not be foolproof.

It also eliminates the requirement under the Obama administration's NCLB waiver program that states evaluate teacher performance based on, in part, student test score growth.

(That is — «OK, teachers, since we know that your students» test scores are not a sound or valid way to evaluate your effectiveness, we'll only base 30 percent of your evaluation on them.»

Advocates of evaluating teachers based on their students» test scores respond to that by saying that even though we know it's flawed, that's the best way we have right now; and by limiting it to a percentage of the evaluation.

Evaluating teachers based on students» test scores isn't a perfect way to identify the best and the worst.

• AB 1078 (Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen, R - Riverbank) would have increased the number of ratings teachers could be assigned and would require educators to be evaluated in part based on student test scores.

Otherwise, eight of the other myths, specifically, deal directly with the lies often told about teachers, including the way in which they should be evaluated based on student test scores (via VAMs).

The tests must also be able to evaluate the validity and reliability of future questions because if the state is going to mandate the dismissal of teachers and principals based on student test results, or ruin their reputation by posting their scores in the newspaper, then it must also require that the tests be designed to stand up in court (whether or not they ultimate do stand up is still an open question).

Across the country, evaluating teachers partly based on student test scores remains very controversial.

The bill, like Senate Bill 6, requires school systems to evaluate and pay teachers primarily on the basis of student test scores, which assessment experts say is an ineffective evaluation method.

While some Vergara supporters, maybe most, will want teachers evaluated on the basis of student test scores, I'm not one of them.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.

She has eluded to perhaps the best suggestion to date to fix our schools, a comprehensive and challenging curriculum in every discipline at every grade, but somehow this message has been lost in all the hoopla over merit pay, charter schools, evaluating teachers based on their students» test scores, collective bargaining rights, etc..

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a major lawsuit.

TCTA has consistently opposed attempts to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores based on the weight of research showing that using student test performance to evaluate teacher performance is invalid, unreliable and unfair.

I am sorry that The Times has taken up the cause of evaluating teachers based on improvement in student test scores.

For example, one plaintiff was a first - grade teacher evaluated based on the third - grade test scores of students she herself never taught.

«The MET findings reinforce the importance of evaluating teachers based on a balance of multiple measures of teaching effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.

Proposals to evaluate teachers based on their «value - added» to student test scores generate intense debate.

More importantly, observations are inherently biased because they are based on subjective determinations by school leaders and others who are prone to think that their approach to teaching is superior to anyone else's (even if teachers being evaluated have demonstrated that they improve student achievement as measured by test score growth).

The bill would not require states to evaluate teachers or measure them based on student test scores.

Evaluating teacher quality based on the level of their students» end - of - year test scores has been one method of assessing teacher quality, but this approach favors those teachers of students who begin the year already at a high academic level.

In 2011, it started granting waivers to states to free them from the more onerous requirements of the law in exchange for embracing Obama's policies, such as evaluating teachers in part based on student test scores.

This bill further provides that an educator is not: (1) Required to spend the educator's personal money to appropriately equip a classroom; (2) Evaluated by professionals, under the teacher evaluation advisory committee, without the same subject matter expertise as the educator; (3) Evaluated based on the performance of students whom the educator has never taught; or (4) Relocated to a different school based solely on test scores from state mandated assessments.

Many teachers are concerned about what they see as a lack of freedom in curriculum planning and personal teaching style, and fear being evaluated based on their students» Common Core test scores.

The state promised to turn around its poorest performing schools over the course of four years, evaluate teachers based in part on student test scores, increase the use of technology in the classroom, and use more rigorous academic standards along with new tests aligned to those standards.

While the ASA «standards for reliability and validity» pertaining to standardized testing are not real, the amendment may have been referring to a 2014 statement from the ASA regarding value - added measures, a method for evaluating teachers based on their impact on student test scores.

NMPED and the Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board both underscore the point that teachers are still primarily being (and should primarily continue to be) evaluated on the basis of their own students» test scores (i.e., using a value - added model (VAM)-RRB-, but it is actually not that simple.