Despite the failure of value - added impacts to persist with respect to test scores, the research reviewed here has established that
indicators of classroom effectiveness predict a range of adult outcomes.
As a result, even those who advocate using value - added in teacher evaluation emphasize the importance of combining value - added with data from other
measures of classroom effectiveness.
Rather, most teachers recognize that because large - scale accountability tests don't provide a true
picture of their classroom effectiveness, those tests don't give them the information they need to evaluate and, if necessary, alter their instructional strategies.
There is now a small group of teacher union leaders and disgruntled teachers that want to return to the days when teacher job security was guaranteed
regardless of classroom effectiveness.
Simply by giving up the extra payment for the master's degree, school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing
any of their classroom effectiveness.
Simply by giving up the extra payment awarded to teachers with master's degrees, school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing
any of their classroom effectiveness.
Superintendent Cerf was placed in the unfortunate, if fiscally necessary, position of sending those teachers back to classrooms, regardless
of classroom effectiveness.