A growing body of evidence suggests that there are dramatic differences
in teacher effectiveness not reflected in the subjective evaluations now in place.
For the best principals, the rate of teacher turnover is highest in grades in which teachers are least effective, supporting the belief that improvement
in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.
New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference
in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.
In this study, we compare the teacher quality distributions in charter schools and traditional public schools, and examine mechanisms that might explain cross-sector differences
in teacher effectiveness as measured by teacher value - added scores using school and teacher level data from Florida.
The largest gains
in teacher effectiveness occur early in a teaching career and diminish thereafter until flattening out at around 8 years for math and 11 years for reading.
Second, we find that cross-sector differences in observed teacher characteristics such as experience and educational attainment fail to explain any of the observed gaps
in teacher effectiveness in higher - poverty settings.
This research brief examines differences
in teacher effectiveness by school transition status and school characteristics in a large urban school district in Texas, using estimates of teacher effectiveness based on teacher contributions to student learning outcomes across classrooms.
The variability
in teacher effectiveness raises the stakes on identifying effective teachers and teaching practices.This paper combines data from classroom observations of teaching practices and measures of teachers» ability to improve student achievement as one contribution to these questions.
Arne Duncan believes that some of the best
work in teacher effectiveness is happening at the local level and hopes to scale these results to a national level.
The public attention to variations
in teacher effectiveness led to an uproar — an uproar that helped focus the policy discussion and local bargaining.
In this blog post, Umut Özek, a principal researcher at AIR, describes a new study in which he and his fellow authors examined the
disparities in teacher effectiveness between charter schools and traditional public schools in Florida.
Still, the question of how much impact any teacher can have in just two to three years is valid, especially given the research indicating that the largest
growth in teacher effectiveness occurs during the first three years of teaching.
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She also consulted with the Center for Educational Leadership, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and several other districts and organizations and has worked across the
nation in teacher effectiveness.
We find little evidence of convergence or
divergence in teacher effectiveness across teachers as they advance in their careers, but strong evidence that prior year estimates of job performance for individual teachers predict student achievement even when there is a multi-year lag between the two.
Researchers have long theorized that empathy is a critical
component in teacher effectiveness in urban settings, positively impacting teachers» dispositions in interactions with students of color (Warren 2014).
According to Ben Jensen's 2010 Grattan Institute report, Investing in Our Teachers, Investing in Our Economy, a 10 per cent
increase in teacher effectiveness would lift Australia and Australian students into the highest - performing group of countries in the world.
While some stakeholders hope that the lawsuits will catalyze state - wide
improvements in teacher effectiveness, others are skeptical that including measures of student progress in teacher evaluation is an accurate and fair measure of effectiveness.
For instance, a 2015 study by The New Teacher Project found that districts spend an average of $ 18,000 per year per teacher on professional development, but most professional development programs fail to yield
changes in teacher effectiveness that are detectable in student test scores.
In fact, studies of informal surveys of principals (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, Spring 2006) and teacher ratings by mentor teachers find that these more - subjective evaluation methods have similar power to detect differences
in teacher effectiveness as the TES ratings.
A substantial literature documents large variation
in teacher effectiveness at raising student achievement, providing motivation to identify highly effective and ineffective teachers early in their
• Good principals are likely to make more personnel changes in grade levels where students are under - performing, supporting the belief that «improvement
in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.»
The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on
Differences in Teacher Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of our teachers.
How Classroom Observations Can Support Systematic Improvement
in Teacher Effectiveness.