The expectation that each teacher can be fairly
evaluated on a single test without regard to the different traits of each student is like asking someone to bake a cake with only one ingredient.
Not exact matches
The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement
on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are
evaluated on more than a
single student
test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.
As the state notes of its system, «A central tenet of AchieveNJ is that educators are never
evaluated on a
single factor or
test score alone, but
on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning.»
«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.
Many would argue that teacher and student performance should be
evaluated on growth over the course of the year instead of one
single test.
«Teachers should never be
evaluated on the basis of a
single consideration, such as
test scores, much less a
single score from a
single test, but rather
on the basis of multiple measures that include both learning outcomes and effective practices, with approximately 50 percent associated with each.»
«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.
I know that many citizens, including journalists, do not understand why teachers are so opposed to being
evaluated on the basis of a
single test, so I'll try to give an example of what can, and does, happen:
If any
single tests are used to
evaluate teachers, I suspect there will be court cases where
testing experts will testify
on behalf of teachers.
«As a central... tenet, we believe that educators should never be
evaluated on a
single factor or
test score alone, but
on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning outcomes.»
Evaluating your site's speed based solely
on a
single test or metric provides an incomplete picture.