Sentences with phrase «individual teachers based on student test scores»

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a major lawsuit.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.

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While value - added models based on student test scores are problematic for making evaluation decisions for individual teachers, they are useful for looking at groups of teachers for research purposes — for example, to examine how specific teaching practices or measures of teaching influence the learning of large numbers of students.

In recent years with new state and national education laws (e.g. No Child Left Behind), students» scores on standardized tests can also have consequences for individual teachers (their evaluation is partially based on their students» test scores) and for schools (for example, potentially closing schools with a certain percentage of failing students).