Sentences with phrase «individual teacher effects»

Finally, researchers discourage the use of value - added modeling in teacher evaluation practices due to their low levels of statistical reliability across years and limited validity for detecting individual teacher effects (Darling - Hammond, 2012).

To date, there have been five studies which have tested for bias in individual teacher effect estimates.

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When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

And further analyses revealed that the classroom improvement effect was not influenced by various individual - and classroom - level factors, including student race, student intervention condition, and teacher team, in either study.

Because entering the teacher workforce is a function of whether an individual applies for a position and the hiring decisions of districts, these results show the effect of academic competency on the likelihood of applying and getting hired contingent on applying.

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This report recommends further research to investigate the question of whether the certification process itself makes teachers more effective — as they become familiar with the standards and complete the assessment — or if high - quality teachers are attracted to the certification process, as well as to determine whether NBPTS certification is having broader effects on the educational system beyond individual classrooms.

Assigning a failing grade to a school as a result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.

Given the small size of the effects for each individual student, even a slight bit of selection bias could dramatically alter the estimated benefits of an individual teacher.

Thus, critics argue that VAMs can not «isolate» an individual teacher's effect on student test scores.

Yet qualities less easily (or commonly) quantified appear to matter a great deal, as the differences between individual teachers have been found to have profound effects.

Altogether, the predicted effect of increasing the power of individual teachers is uncertain.

They can not isolate with confidence the effect of individual criteria, like whether a teacher is certified in the subject or has higher SAT scores because «many of the measures of teachers» qualifications are highly correlated with each other.»

Researchers have gravitated toward the value - added approach because, under some assumptions, it provides accurate information on the causal effects of individual schools or individual teachers on student performance.

The information obtained by a mentor through interaction with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program shall not be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher, unless withholding such information poses a danger to the life, health, or safety if an individual, including but not limited to students and staff of the school; or unless such information indicates that the new teacher has been convicted of a crime, or has committed an act which raises a reasonable question as to the new teacher's moral character; or unless the school district or BOCES has entered into an agreement, negotiated pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law whose terms are in effect, that provides that the information obtained by the mentor through intervention with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program may be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher.

To isolate the effects of having a teacher of the same race, we examine whether individual students are more or less likely to face exclusionary disciplinary consequences in years when they are matched to a same - race teacher compared to years when they are assigned to a teacher of a different race.

Separating out the effect of race matching from differences between schools requires individual - level data on students and teachers, including their race and exposure to school discipline measures over multiple years.

Estimating the effect of individual teachers» grading standards on their students» achievement gains assumes that these standards remain relatively consistent over time, that they are not unduly influenced by the composition of their class, and that they are not a reflection of some other observable characteristic that might account for any effects we observe.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

Yet wise editors at The Times apparently believe they can magically set aside confounding factors and pinpoint the discrete effects of individual teachers on students» learning.

For good or ill, elementary teachers can have a major effect on individual children, while middle - and high - school teachers see more students less often, affecting four or five times as many students in a less time - intensive, more subject - specific way.

What's risky is moving from a complicated statistical model to estimating the discrete effect of individual teachers, precisely the leap of faith being made by The Times.

In Arizona, we have student growth percentiles that allow student - level data to be linked across multiple years in order to measure the effect that a school or teacher has had on an individual student.

Ultimately, scales of items are constructed and disseminated to individuals seeking to measure the effect of teacher education programs on mathematics teachers» knowledge acquisition.

If that translates into everybody doing their own thing, we'll go backward because the effect of the school is not the added effect of the individual teachers.

There is also the daunting challenge of separating out individual teachers» effect on their students» reading and math scores from the myriad of other influences on student achievement.

An inquiry - minded approach not only encourages teachers to treat each pupil as an individual, it also lets them draw more practically on research from other institutions, having an effect on their classroom practices and enabling more classroom - based research.

A former Hope Street teaching fellow and Woodford County teacher, Clark, too, knows personally the importance not only of building the capacity of individual teachers to lead, but also of building a broad, national network of teacher leaders to address education policy and effect lasting change.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

While the effects are not large for individual students, they become substantial when they are aggregated over the students a teacher encounters.

[4] And teacher effects estimated by Chetty et al. (2011) appear to include the impact of reduced class size in addition to the impact of individual teacher skill.

Among the explanations for small class effects are improved teacher morale, more time spent by teachers on individual instruction and less on classroom management, along with fewer disruptions and fewer discipline problems.

As a result, we can control for individual student fixed effects simultaneously with individual teacher fixed effects, thereby alleviating biases due to endogenous assignment of both peers and teachers, including some dynamic aspects of such assignments.

It is impossible to predict the effect on grades for individual students and teachers.

Once we control statistically for the quality of individual teachers by the use of teacher fixed effects, we find large returns to experience for middle school teachers in the form both of higher test scores and improvements in student behavior, with the clearest behavioral effects emerging for reductions in student absenteeism.

The effects appear to be both direct — with performance improving for individual students in MCL classrooms — and indirect, with whole schools» growth rising when teachers begin leading even part of a school.

As evidence continues to pile up about the central importance of effective teaching, states nationwide are rethinking how they define and measure the effects individual teachers have on educational outcomes.

Multilevel structural equation modeling was applied in order to account for individual, class - average, and teacher effects.

This study examines the effects of individual characteristics (school grade and gender), peer relationships (peer support and peer victimization), and the subjective well - being of teachers (depression and job satisfaction) on students» attachment to school.