Sentences with phrase «factor in teacher evaluations»

So if educators here are rejecting the idea that student test scores should be a major factor in teacher evaluations, what are they embracing instead?

Members, whom include legislators and education leaders across the state, must factor in teacher evaluation measures and student performance outcomes.

According to the National Council on Teacher Quality's «State of the States 2013» report, 35 states and the District of Columbia now require that student achievement be a significant or the most significant factor in teacher evaluations.

Parent groups and the state teachers union fueled the movement to try to force changes to the tests and how they are used (test results are an important factor in teacher evaluations).

A good teacher is now recognized as someone whose students learn and grow, with 38 states revising their policies on educator effectiveness to include measures of student growth or achievement as one of multiple factors in teacher evaluations.

According to the most recent data available, only seven states have policies that factor in teacher evaluations in salary determinations, and nine allow for performance - based bonuses to individual teachers (Figure 7).

VAM, viewed as reducing bias and error, is increasingly used by states and districts as a major factor in teacher evaluation, retention, promotion, and compensation.

In December, the Regents placed a four - year moratorium on including the scores as a factor in teacher evaluations.

Under the proposed legislation, he explained, the federal government would no longer mandate sanctions for struggling schools; states would have more flexibility on learning standards; and the federal government would no longer require that test scores be used as a factor in teacher evaluations.

Dr. Tisch said she still firmly believed that test scores should be a factor in teacher evaluations.

The Post argues that what the unions are really objecting to is the use of results from the new tests as a factor in teacher evaluations.

[xxiv] They are favorable on the idea of student learning being a factor in teacher evaluations [xxv] but not student test scores [xxvi](perhaps an impossibly thin needle to thread).

Most states require, or will soon require, student test score growth to be a factor in teacher evaluations.

In 2011, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that the Stull Act does require the use of the state standardized test scores as a factor in a teacher evaluation and ordered Los Angeles Unified to incorporate them.

Now 35 states require student achievement to be a significant factor in teacher evaluations, and many school districts are using those evaluations to make decisions about teacher bonuses and as a basis for firings.

The study was commissioned by the state legislature to determine whether the Florida State Assessment was, in short, «an accurate way to measure students» knowledge of the Florida Standards,» as well as whether results could be used as a factor in teacher evaluations and school accountability.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and an inspiring group of reform - driven superintendents representing more than 1 million students here in California pushed this movement forward with our state's Race to the Top proposal and legislation to make student academic growth a factor in teacher evaluations.

Although he was a defendant in the suit, the decision was viewed as a victory for Deasy, who has been a strident advocate for using test scores as one factor in teacher evaluations.

Unlike Torlakson, who has been endorsed by California's two main teachers unions and the state Democratic Party, Tuck opposes California's generous teacher tenure system, has challenged the law that bases teacher layoffs on seniority and believes strongly that student's standardized test scores should be a factor in teacher evaluations.

The tests, which are given to third through eighth graders and will begin this year on April 5, were shortened, time limits were removed, and the results will not be a factor in teacher evaluations, among other changes.

What Brill means is that, in many places, standardized test score «gains» are not a factor in teacher evaluations.

The memo expressed TCTA's concerns with the original bill's teacher evaluation provisions, especially a requirement that student achievement data be a significant factor in teacher evaluation.

«This report shows that teacher evaluation systems in 35 states and the District of Columbia are driven by tests, requiring that student achievement results be a significant, or even the most significant, factor in teacher evaluations,» Weingarten said in a statement.

«The number of states that have moved so far forward on teacher evaluation is just striking — more than 40 states now require student achievement to be a factor in teacher evaluations is very different from where we were before,» Sandi Jacobs, the group's vice president, said in an interview.