Officials from three key school districts engaged in creating new educator
evaluation systems warned the California State Board of Education Wednesday that any steps toward linking pay with student performance must be made with the participation of the professionals.
Not exact matches
Education stakeholder groups
warned that creating a new
evaluation system under the same conditions as the last one likely won't lead to better results.
Meanwhile, the counsel for Governor Cuomo is
warning education officials that their authority to delay the implementation of a new teacher
evaluation system should be done so sparingly.
Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher
evaluation systems, and a
warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.
While little impact -
evaluation research exists on the efficacy of early -
warning indicator
systems in reducing the use of exclusionary discipline, implementation research suggests that if early -
warning systems are not paired with a behavioral - support approach, they are unlikely to be effective.
Over the last decade, for example, many states and districts rushed to implement centralized teacher
evaluation systems, even though critics
warned, for good reason, that they wouldn't provide valid or reliable measures of classroom practice.
David also leads the implementation of early
warning systems in 32 schools across three states on behalf of a Regional Educational Laboratory - Midwest
evaluation.
REVIEWS «When the Obama Administration decided to spend the billions it got for schools as part of the stimulus package to launch the Race to the Top program and the NCLB waivers, forcing many states to adopt teacher
evaluation based on changes in student test scores, leading experts
warned that this «value added»
system did not have a reliable scientific basis and would often lead to false conclusions.
Read this from a letter that scores of researchers from 16 universities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area sent to Emanuel
warning against the «value - added»
system of teacher involvement, which uses complicated formulas to factor test scores into an
evaluation:
Researchers from AIR, on behalf of the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, conducted a rigorous
evaluation of the implementation of the Early
Warning Intervention and Monitoring
System (EWIMS) at 73 high schools over 3 years.
AIR is also conducting an external, third party
evaluation of an early
warning system program in Philadelphia Middle Schools.
The National Academy of Sciences and experts assembled by the Economic Policy Institute have
warned of the potentially damaging consequences of implementing test - based
evaluation systems or merit pay based on test scores.
The IIHS» automatic braking
evaluations include two tests: one at 12 mph and one at 25 mph, where a car heads towards an obstacle to with the forward collision
warning and / or autobrake
systems turned on.
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