Lindsay Fox, Doctoral Candidate of Stanford Graduate School of Education, discusses her research on Playing to Teachers» Strengths: Using
multiple measures of teacher effectiveness to improve teacher assignments which is to be published in Education Finance and Policy.
For example, the network recently created a new teacher evaluation system that incorporates
multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including classroom observations; survey responses from colleagues, students, and families; and growth in student test scores.
Through the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, the three sites and CMOs committed to giving teachers the feedback and support they need by incorporating
multiple measures of teacher effectiveness — including classroom observations, student achievement measures, and student surveys — in their evaluation systems.
Drew Furedi, an L.A. Unified official overseeing the district's evaluation system, said he could not comment on the proposals because he hadn't seen them yet, but he welcomed their support for
multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including test score data.
Not exact matches
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.
«The MET findings reinforce the importance
of evaluating
teachers based on a balance
of multiple measures of teaching
effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations
of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores or any other single
measure,» Weingarten said.
Implement a comprehensive evaluation system for
teachers and principals based on
multiple measures of effectiveness, including student achievement
Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation
of educator
effectiveness by implementing mathematical models that include
multiple measures of student growth and which evaluate educator
effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety
of factors that may impact student learning but over which the
teacher has no influence.
Likewise, research can reveal more about whether TPPs with
multiple programs graduate
teachers of similar
effectiveness, but it can not speak to how, or whether, estimated effects
of graduates from different programs within a single TPP should be aggregated to provide a summative
measures of TPP performance.
There may also be ways
of improving predictions for both new and more experienced
teachers using
multiple measures of teaching
effectiveness.
Multiple years of value - added scores provide better information on teacher effectiveness than does just one year, but even multiple - year measures are not
Multiple years
of value - added scores provide better information on
teacher effectiveness than does just one year, but even
multiple - year measures are not
multiple - year
measures are not precise.
To help guide the discussion, ASCD has identified a series
of subtopics related to educator
effectiveness — including the roles and responsibilities
of teacher preparation programs, the purpose
of educator evaluation systems, and using
multiple measures to determine
effectiveness.
Evaluations include
multiple measures of practice and student growth to form a holistic picture
of principal
effectiveness; an example
measure could entail the instructional feedback that principals provide to
teachers after classroom observations.
However, the need to examine
teacher effectiveness is clear, and a growing number
of districts and states are finding ways to
measure teacher impact by relying on
multiple measures of student achievement, observation, samples
of assignments, student work and more.
The focus
of this report is on one piece
of this very large set
of transformations: the
multiple measures and
multiple methods used in new
teacher evaluation systems, including the weighting
of these
measures, to determine a composite score
of teacher effectiveness.
The
Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee is charged with developing and recommending to the State Board of Education guidelines and criteria for a multiple - measures teacher and principal effectiveness evaluation system, which will be administered annually to all teachers and principals in the
Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee is charged with developing and recommending to the State Board
of Education guidelines and criteria for a
multiple -
measures teacher and principal effectiveness evaluation system, which will be administered annually to all teachers and principals in the
teacher and principal
effectiveness evaluation system, which will be administered annually to all
teachers and principals in the state.
Tennessee's new
multiple -
measures teacher and principal
effectiveness evaluation system will enhance our current ability to identify performance levels
of educators and be a much more strategic tool for supporting them.
I recommend this article to you all in that it's pretty much right on in terms
of using «
multiple measures» to
measure pretty much anything educational these days, including
teacher effectiveness.
It also will be recommended that local boards only grant tenure to
teachers who achieve at least an «effective
teacher» rating on the new
multiple -
measure teacher effectiveness evaluation,
of which a significant portion will be based on student achievement data.
«The MET findings reinforce the importance
of evaluating
teachers based on a balance
of multiple measures of teaching
effectiveness, in contrast to the limitations
of focusing on student test scores, value - added scores, or any other single
measure,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a statement.
Throughout 2010, districts not only will gain access to the tools and training necessary to begin work in this area, but the recently passed legislation, the First to The Top Act, mandates the development and use
of an annual
multiple -
measure teacher and principal
effectiveness evaluation.
Furthermore, they should evaluate
teacher effectiveness based on
multiple measures of both practice and outcomes that are considered in an integrated fashion, including:
High quality
teacher evaluation systems also include
multiple measures of effectiveness, and each
of these
measures must be carefully developed and tested for their validity (e.g., accuracy) and reliability (e.g., consistency).
The importance
of rating
teachers on
multiple measures of performance, which encourages
effectiveness and excellence.
But instead
of leaving
teacher effectiveness completely up to local educators, its Encouraging Innovation and Effective
Teachers Act (PDF) surprisingly requires states and districts to develop teacher evaluation systems that use multiple measures of evaluation; incorporate student achievement data; include more than two rating categories; are tied to personnel decisions; and are developed with input from parents, teachers, and othe
Teachers Act (PDF) surprisingly requires states and districts to develop
teacher evaluation systems that use
multiple measures of evaluation; incorporate student achievement data; include more than two rating categories; are tied to personnel decisions; and are developed with input from parents,
teachers, and othe
teachers, and other staff.
Sorting out the Signal: Do
Multiple Measures of Teachers»
Effectiveness Provide Consistent Information to
Teachers and Principals?