Sentences with phrase «expert on teacher evaluation systems»

Not exact matches

Although an estimated 98 percent of the country's school systems have policies requiring the evaluation of teachers, administrators are «woefully inadequate» at carrying the policies out, according to Jerry W. Valentine, one of two nationally - recognized experts on evaluation who spoke this month at a seminar here sponsored by the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education (nolpe).

The first article titled, «Experts differ on test - based evaluations at NM hearing,» I felt fairly captured the events of the second day in court, but the second article titled, «Professor's testimony: Teacher eval system «not ready for prime time,» did not.

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.

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.

I served as the expert witness for the plaintiff's side, along with other witnesses including lawmakers (e.g., a state senator) and educators (e.g., teachers, superintendents) who made various (and very articulate) claims about the state's teacher evaluation system on the stand.