Sentences with phrase «gauge teacher performance»

«I don't think we've gotten a single complaint in the past year and a half dealing with the PowerUp program,» said P. Gayle Fallon, the president of the 6,000 - member Houston Federation of Teachers, which is currently involved in a lawsuit challenging the district's use of controversial statistical methods to gauge teacher performance.

But the system is not without advocates who maintains it has brought about a «meaningful» way to gauge teacher performance.

Tenure and seniority are no longer sacred, either, and the unions no longer get much traction with their declaration that it's inherently unfair to gauge teacher performance on the basis of student learning.

Colorado enacted the single most important piece of legislation to come out of the RTT process — its remarkable Senate Bill 191 (arduously carried by Mike Johnston) which overhauled teacher evaluation and tenure and introduced a smart statewide framework for gauging teacher performance.

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In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.

To solve this problem, the state now requires high school students to take three years of math and science, and teachers will pilot end - of - year course assessments to gauge student performance and how well the courses stack up.

Now, it makes good sense to rely on much more than test scores to gauge the performance of students, teachers and schools.

Alternative assessment, often called authentic, comprehensive, or performance assessment, is usually designed by the teacher to gauge students» understanding of material.

Strikes me that that there's a serious specification issue and potential tautology involved in asserting that the «top one - third of students» get the «best one - third of teachers,» especially when the gauge of teacher quality is student performance.

The National Education Association, though a long - time Democratic sidecar, recently issued a 26 - page single - spaced denunciation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's Race to the Top funding criteria — alleging that they place far too much emphasis on charter schools and insult teachers by suggesting that their performance should be gauged by their pupils» achievement.

SAN FRANCISCO — Secretary of Education Arne Duncan acknowledged serious flaws in the standardized tests that currently drive American schools, telling an audience of education researchers on Tuesday that the tests are an inadequate gauge of student and teacher performance.

The idea of using a performance assessment to gauge a teacher candidate's readiness to teach is fairly new and — as with most significant changes — not without controversy.

As senior associate dean of the College of Education at Illinois State University, Adkins has been deeply involved in the implementation of a performance assessment called edTPA, which is designed to gauge a teacher candidate's readiness to teach.

Now they're used to evaluate teacher performance and gauge the effectiveness of schools, ultimately determining their fate.

When used as assessments, performance tasks enable teachers to gauge student understanding and proficiency with complex processes (e.g., research, problem solving, and writing), not just measure discrete knowledge.

The $ 45 - million Measures of Effective Teaching study is a groundbreaking effort to identify reliable gauges of teacher performance through an intensive look at 3,000 teachers in cities throughout the country.

Other differences come from the tests on which the value - added measures are based; because test scores are not perfectly accurate measures of student knowledge, it follows that they are not perfectly accurate gauges of teacher performance.

The same concept applies to using differences in teachers» measured performance across different sections (e.g. at the secondary level, where teachers often teach multiple sections of the same subject) to gauge the extent to which measurement error may lead to inaccurate assessments.

The most common way to use multiple measures in teacher accountability is through weighted averages of value - added with other gauges of teacher performance.

Another way to gauge the potential for misclassification is to focus on time - related differences in teacher performance.

Teachers and principals at some schools receive training and implement new educator evaluation system, which for the first time uses student test scores to gauge performance.

The hastily called hearing sought to be a forum for the various groups to air mounting concerns about implementation of the new standards and especially the new testing, which will not only gauge how much students have learned but will also be used in measuring teacher performance under the state's new evaluation guidelines.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

Most of the 40,000 teachers who responded to a 2009 online questionaire sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Scholastic said that state standardized tests are far less important in gauging student achievement than formative, ongoing assessments in class, class participation, and performance on class assignments.

Analysts at the Fordham Foundation created a rubric for gauging the difficulty of firing ineffective teachers based on these three metrics: Does tenure protect veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal?

Such benchmark assessments gauge increments of student performance and provide teachers with data that spur conversation about instructional and curricular design.

The Christie administration this week released the first of two reports from the 25 pilot districts that were charged and funded to test the new systems that use uniform evaluation practices, as well as student performance measures, to gauge the effectiveness of teachers.

And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.

As a supplement to the information and data collected through the TPEC system, beginning with federal program monitoring conducted in school year 2015 - 2016 for the Title II, Part A, program, the monitoring protocol will include questions designed to gauge the extent to which a school division has: 1) fully embedded the state's required performance standards and evaluation criteria in the school division's locally - designed teacher and principal evaluation system; and 2) adequately used results of teacher and principal evaluations to inform the school division's professional development offerings and educator support system.