Sentences with phrase «evaluation policy appeared»

Overall, respondents» positions on teacher evaluation policy appeared to be unaffected by their exposure to the policy preferences of teachers.

Not exact matches

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

His work has appeared in Education Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and The Elementary School Journal.

The appropriate time period to be used for evaluation of the risks underlying climate change and for the development of policy responses and assessment of costs and benefits of each option appears to be more in terms of a hundred years or thereabouts.

Now, we are going in the opposite direction and OIPC, as the agency with the nominal task of coordinating Indigenous policy, is being reduced in status, and is in danger of losing the degree of autonomy and separation that would appear necessary to allow for providing independent advice and objective evaluation of programs.